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Groundnut (Peanut) Hay is Good Feed in the Dry Season
If you feed your animals well in the dry season they are ready for the hard work of cultivating the fields when the rains come. And good feeding all year round helps your cows produce more milk. It also helps them produce young ones more often. It’s the same with other animals too. Animal feed…
Protect Tomatoes from Frost
Save and edit this resource as a Word document. You can grow tomatoes even in cold weather. A farmer in Zimbabwe, Mr. Francis Handwa, uses cooking oil or milk bottles filled with water to keep tomato plants warm. This is a good alternative to covering tomatoes if used bottles are easy to get. Here is…
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Banana trunks: a treasure for your garden in the dry season Zingui Messomo Xavier Communications Officer INADES Formation Cameroon Some farmers in Cameroon found a use for banana trunks after harvest. They put cut up banana trunks between the rows of vegetable crops such as tomatoes, lettuce, and cabbage. As they decompose, the banana trunks…
Grow and Eat Nutritious Yams
In the Pacific, the yam is a popular and important food crop. In some places yams are eaten every day, particularly when they are in season. In other places yams are eaten only on special occasions. No matter how and when they are used, yams are recognised for their delicious flavour and cultural values. They…
Improve Straw for Livestock Feed
Do you burn your straw because you think it is useless? By treating straw with ashes you can make ash straw which is a good livestock feed. Livestock that eat ash straw will gain more weight and be healthier. By itself, straw is a poor feed for animals because it is hard to digest and…
Liquid manure is good fertilizer
You can tell how much plant food a soil contains by simply looking at the colour of crops in a field. Some field crops look green while some are yellowish. Green crops show that the soil has enough plant food. A yellow crop usually indicates that the soil does not have enough plant food. Every…
Mulch Increases Yields at Sustenance Farm
Mulch has helped turn Sustenance Farm into one of the most productive farms in a hot, humid region of the southeastern United States. When Harvey and Nancy Harman moved to the farm a few years ago most of the topsoil had washed away and the soil was worn out. In less than two years they…
More with Mulch
Save and edit this resource as a Word document How can you increase crop yields, reduce erosion and improve the soil? By putting a layer of mulch on the soil around your plants. Most mulch is made from plant residues left behind after harvesting. Today we are talking about how mulch can benefit you, your…
Where to Find Compost Materials
Everywhere people are looking for cheap alternatives. Farmers are not left out in this search. They are looking for cheap alternatives to expensive farm inputs such as chemical fertilizers. Chemicals are not only expensive, they can also damage the soil and the environment, especially if used incorrectly. Farmyard manure is one alternative. It supplies all…
Starting a Community Seed Bank: Part 4 – Planting and Restocking the Seed
In Part 3, we explained how to keep important information about the seeds and how to store the seeds in the bank. In this final script, we talk about ways to restock the bank when seed supplies are low. Over time the seed bank will probably give some of its seed to farmers with poor…