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Or­ganic ag­ri­cul­ture pro­du­ces more in­come & health be­ne­fits for farm­ers

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Or­ganic ag­ri­cul­ture is not only cap­able of gen­er­at­ing com­par­able yields, but also pro­du­cing more in­come and health be­ne­fits for farm­ers than con­ven­tional meth­ods ac­cord­ing to long-term study by the Swiss Re­search In­sti­tute of Or­ganic Ag­ri­cul­ture (FiBL) in Kenya. The study which took ten years was con­duc­ted in Thika and Chuka sub-counties. It found that or­ganic …

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Legume inter-cropping doubles traditional crop performance

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Farmers growing traditional crops like maize side by side with legumes are recording more than double increase in yields and cutting down on fertilizer spend as legumes fertilize the soils at 20 percent more than synthetic fertilizers. While farmers have long intercropped legumes like beans, cowpeas, groundnuts and pigeon peas with maize and millet, it …

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Fertiliser Crisis: Organic gold manure that doubles farmer yields

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By George Munene With sky-high fertiliser prices, Farmbizafrica has undertaken to highlight alternative sources farmers can use to enrich their soils while lessening dependence on synthetic fertilisers. Vermicompost is organic fertilizer produced by earthworms from organic waste. It is colloquially referred to as organic gold with good reason; in various studies, vermicompost was found to …

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