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No Pit Latrine Produces Fertilizer
A new type of latrine improves health by breaking the cycle of fecal contamination and the spread of diseases such as diarrhea, hepatitis, typhoid, and parasitic infections. It also provides farmers with fertilizer for their crops. The high quality organic fertilizer produced by the new latrine reduces farmers’ costs and helps to avoid the long…
A Special Clay Pot Helps Tree Seedlings Survive
If you have tried to grow trees in dry areas you know how difficult it can be. Water poured onto plants disappears quickly into the soil or evaporates before the roots are able to use it. Here are two ideas to help young trees survive in dry lands. An idea from India: jaltripti clay pot…
Plant High Quality Cassava Cuttings
If you use high quality cuttings to plant cassava, you can increase the yield of your next cassava crop. If you grow cassava, you know that you start a new crop by planting sections of the stems of mature cassava plants. We call these stem cuttings. They’re also known as planting stakes, planting sticks or…
The Jab-Seeder: A Tool for Manual Seeding
In the northeast part of Thailand, poor soybean farmers who cannot afford power driven farm tools spend long, tiring hours seeding their farms by hand. It is done in three steps: making the holes, dropping the seeds in, and covering them up. The task is time consuming and tiring. The Asian Institute of Technology in…
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Harvesting fruit the easy way By Livai Matarirano, Zimbabwe Harvesting fruit from tall trees can be a problem. Some people ask young children to climb the trees and harvest ripe fruit. If the children don’t have a basket they throw the fruit to the ground. The child may fall and injure a leg or hand…
A Kitchen Garden for the Family
The importance of vegetables in our diets cannot be over emphasized. The vegetables we eat provide our bodies with vitamins and minerals which protect us from diseases. The dry season, then, is a challenge to families, especially to women who are responsible for family meals. This scarcity of green vegetables is sometimes so severe that…
Raise Fish in the Rice Paddy
Rice paddies have lots of natural food for fish. This is one of the advantages of raising fish and rice together. Fish help the farmer by eating weeds and insects in the paddy field. And they fertilize the rice with their manure. On top of all this fish is a nutritious food for your family….
Fish are Good for your Rice and Good for You
Reduce your weed and insect problems by keeping fish in your paddy fields. Fish feed on small weeds and insects that live in the field. Fish manure fertilizes rice and increases rice yield. And fish is a nutritious and tasty food for the family. It does not cost you much to keep fish in your…
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…