Category: SOIL HEALTH

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SOIL HEALTH

CONTEXT BASED SOIL HEALTH SOLUTIONS

Healthy soils are important to feed the crops for high yields. All soils are not the same! Assessment of smallholder soils provides a basis for providing context based solution to improve soil health. Understanding the nutritional needs of  a particular  under specific socio-economic environments is vital for the adoption of soil fertility improvement technologies.

KNOW YOUR SOIL, LOVE YOUR SOIL, FEED YOUR SOIL!

Assessing soil texture by feel. (Singida, Tanzania 2017).

 

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SOIL HEALTH

SMALLHOLDER SOIL HEALTH

Over the years…

  • Crop yields have been drastically decreasing
  • Population expanding exponentially
  • Farming land in high demand
  • Soils, well, as one farmers in Western Kenya said , “the soils are now very tired, they can not give more”

It is with this in mind that restoring, maintaining and increasing soil health for smallholder farmers has become an urgent matter so as to increase crop yields and ultimately food security.