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6 Good Reasons to Choose Seedling Trays for Your Nursery
In this article, we'll reveal six good reasons or advantages why you should choose agricultural seedling trays over conventional…
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AgriTech, new practices and solutions reshaping African agriculture.
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Challenges of Cover Crop Farming Systems (SCV)
Declining soil fertility has been described as the main constraint on food security. Cover crop farming systems appear as a way…
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Erosion-Control Development Methods in Agriculture
Erosion-control developments involve planting live hedges of Ipomoea fistulosa or other plants with similar properties to hold…
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Agriculture: How to Determine Commercial Maturity
The commercial maturity index usually requires some description of the development or ripening stage, and relies on…
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Ridging on Sandy Soils to Control Wind Erosion
In Cameroon, Africa, and elsewhere, there are sandy soils that require good farming practices, such as ridging, to combat both…
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Sugarcane: Reducing Weeds and Increasing Yields
Intensive sugarcane growing has always faced a challenge in managing weeds, which until now has always relied on synthetic…
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Intercropping Cocoa: A System Worth Promoting
Since the late 1980s, Cameroonian cocoa farming has faced low productivity in cocoa orchards, with average yields hovering around…
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Biological Control: Nematodes in Pineapple
Pineapple, being an annual plant of the Bromeliaceae family, faces a wide range of pests when grown intensively.
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How to Grow Rice Intensively: The System of Rice Intensification (SRI)
In Africa, and in Cameroon in particular, demand for rice on the world market keeps growing. Yet despite the Green Revolution…
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Poultry Farming: Palm Oil Sludge, a Miracle Recipe
Palm oil sludge, an organic waste product usually dumped in nature, can reduce broiler chicken feed costs, according to the…
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Producing 50t/ha of Sugarcane Using Sesbania rostrata
Sugarcane quickly became an important cash crop. But yields are low, at 35t/ha. This shortfall is mainly attributed to the high…
