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    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 […]
    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 […]
    Duration: 00:10:14
    Composting to beat striga
    Because striga prefers to grow on poor soils, it is important to keep the soil moist and fertilized in the fight against striga. A good and priceless possibility to make the soil rich, is compost. Mineral fertilizer and organic matter will help to manage striga, but mineral fertilizer is expensive. Compost is better than fresh […]
    Duration: 00:08:56
    Striga biology
    Striga is a dangerous weed, especially for your cereal crops. It damages your yield and can destroy the harvest. Therefore, it is important to know exactly how to destroy and fight against striga. Weed steals water, light and nutrients from crops. Striga is one of the most destroying weeds when it comes to sorghum, millets […]
    Duration: 00:14:30
    Reviving soils with Mucuna
    Intercropping with Mucuna has a lot of benefits. It makes sure that the soil is fertilized and has nitrogen. Furthermore the legume Mucuna covers and protects the soil and makes sure that your yield will be good even in the following years. Often farmers plant cassava between maize and at the beginning of the rainy […]
    Duration: 00:15:00
    Contour bunds
    Contour bunds are useful to protect fields against erosion. They help to reach higher yields. So farmers can make more money. On sloping land, a lot of the rain gets lost down the slope and washes away the fertilized top of the soil. The running down water carries fine earth particle that seal the surface. […]
    Duration: 00:09:33
    SLM12 Conservation agriculture
    With practicing conservation agriculture you can expand the yield. Farmers recognize that their yield is becoming less and less when the soil gets poorer. You can use conservation agriculture to prevent a poor soil. It bases on three ideas: 1. You should always disturb the soil as less as possible to prevent eroding. 2. You […]
    Duration: 00:06:36
    Self help group
    Building a group with other farmers can have many advantages. Everyone can help but at the same time learn something. Some farmers need training to know for example how much they can trade their products for. Therefore, they lose money. In a group, farmers can come together and share their knowledge and equipment with each […]
    Duration: 00:11:22
    Conservation agriculture
    With »Conservation agriculture« you can protect and improve the soil. Many Farmers have problems with dry and infertile soil or too much weeds. Ploughing dries out the soil which causes that the soil can be attacked more easily or could be carried away by wind and rain. If you want to protect your soil, you […]
    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, […]
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