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Land management

Duration: 00:13:32

Compost from rice straw

Making compost out of rice straw is a good way to earn some extra money and to keep the soil healthy. Therefore you can follow some guidelines. Rice straw can be used in various forms. But often farmers see it as waste because it doesn‘t compost well, is cheap to sell and there is too […]

Cereals & Legumes

Land management

Duration: 00:13:00

Managing bacterial leaf blight in rice

Bacterial leaf blight can destroy up to half of your harvest. Therefore it is important to know how to prevent the disease. Bacterial leaf blight appears often in the early season and spreads over seeds, wounds, rain splash and irrigation water. When you apply the same variety every year, the disease could have a serious […]

Cereals & Legumes

Land management

Duration: 00:09:10

Grow row by row

Legumes help farmers in many ways. They are good to keep a successful harvest and fighting against Striga. To know how to use legumes the best way, you will learn some guidelines. Some farmers sow a few cowpea plants between millet, sorghum and maize after the cereal crop. Then the leaves fall down on the […]

Cereals & Legumes

Land management

Duration: 00:09:16

Till less to harvest more

After ploughing, the soil often seems broken and can be attacked by the sun or wind. The more ploughing, the more damage. A lot of soil vanishes because of rain and wind. Before ploughing the soil is usually covered with plant remains which are protecting the field from loosening soil. If these plant remains compost, […]

Cereals & Legumes

Duration: 00:09:09

Let‘s produce more maize

With using fertilizer on maize fields you can get better harvest results. When your corn yields are low you have the opportunity to use fertilizer to produce more. With fertilizer you have to sow less seeds per hill and can bring the hills closer together. Therefore, plants still make usage out of the fertilizer, the […]

Cereals & Legumes

Land management

Duration: 00:11:36

Controlling maize tar spot

With avoiding tar spot you protect the maize harvest from burning. Tar spot is a fungi, that causes big harvest losses of corn. You can recognize it, because of small black dots on top of the leaves. Around the black dots there are lighter spots in form off a fish eye. If the disease continues, […]

Cereals & Legumes

Land management

Duration: 00:13:20

Beans as relay crop

If you want to increase your bean harvest, you should make good distances between the plants, use fertilizer and take proven varieties. Beans are often harvested in the second half of the rain season. This causes, that the yield is low. You also lose many harvested beans in storage because of weevils or moulds. Producing […]

Cereals & Legumes

Equipment

Duration: 00:09:23

Let‘s store our maize well

When you want to store maize you can use pills to kill any leftover weevils. Often maize loss has to do with a bad storing management. If the maize is on the field for too long, it can rot and weevils destroy harvest. Furthermore, invisible aflatoxins can develop in maize. Drying the corn helps to […]

Cereals & Legumes

Equipment

Duration: 00:07:54

Bending over the maize

Bending over maize can be profitable for your yield, if you do it correctly. Bending maize is a popular method in Central America and has different advantages. With bending, less water gets to the tip of the ear. Therefore, the plant dries better, rots less and has less diseases. Also, the kernels are not being […]

Cereals & Legumes

Duration: 00:09:55

Intercropping maize with pigeon peas

It is important for the maize quality to intercrop maize plants with pigeon peas. Maize needs lots of nutrients from the soil. During every harvest, important nutrients will be removed. After a few years the field loses fertility and maize plants lose quality, because the soil cannot rest. If maize plants doesn‘t become enough nutrients, […]

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