Compost manure is environmentfriendly, making it key to climatesmart agriculture, organic agriculture, and regenerative agriculture.
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Filling the fertiliser data gap
AfricaFertilizer’s Fertilizer Technical Working Group (FTWG) sessions serve as a strategic platform to accomplish the initiative’s core mandate.
Covid, war, subsidy cuts: Triple fertiliser trouble for farmers
The government has also reduced the subsidy component in the price of fertilisers. The decline started from 2019.
AfDB approves $11.7 million to boost fertiliser access by African farmers
Small-scale farmers on a rice plantation. Photo Credit: AfDBAfDB approves $11.7 million to boost fertiliser access by African farmersDownload PDFTHE African Development Bank (AfDB)…
Kenya adopts mobile payments, e-vouchers to cut off fertiliser cartels
Kenya's Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua distributing the subsidised fertilizer to farmers at a past event. Photo Credit: Henry OwinoKenya adopts mobile payments, e-vouchers to…
Icipe scientists seek super organic fertiliser from insects
About a third of arable land is severely degraded, according to the Food and Agriculture Authority (FAO), costing the world US$400 billion in agricultural production each year.
Global effort to safeguard mangroves steps up
Fatou Diene, an oyster farmer in the mangroves near Dionewar Island, Senegal. Photo Credit: FAO Rate of loss has slowed in the last decade,…
Cameroon forest community finds instant solution to anaemia
Ministry of public health surveys found a majority of the women were suffering from some level of irondeficiency anaemia.
Fortified school meals plan creates new market for Benin and Ghana farmers
School meals also favour the creation of new jobs in the food sector by engaging communities,
Inside the plant clinic supplying Africa with clean potato vines and seeds
Many farmers often recycle sweet potato vines from one season to the next, causing a build-up of diseases and viruses, which in turn reduces the root yields.
