FO Library | Doc & Demo Page

x
    Showing 10 of 2055
    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, […]
    Duration: 00:09:49
    Stone lines
    You can use stones on the field profitable with building lines. Often farmers have to many stones in their field but on the other hand have the problem, that the soil is reducing from year to year. The rain washes soil from the land which causes that the soil gets thin, dry and infertile. That‘s […]
    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 […]
    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, […]
    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 […]
    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 […]
    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 […]
    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, […]
    1 … 203 204 205 206

    FO Library

    Email: info (at) fo-library.org
    Phone: +49 (228) 91929-0
    Fax: +49 (228) 91929-30 

    With financial support: BMZ
    Voicefunction by responsivevoice.org

    KENAFF LIBRARY

    Kenya National Farmers’ Federation (KENAFF)
    P.O Box 43148-00100, Nairobi, Kenya.
    Farmers’ Conference Centre (FCC), Thogoto-Mutarakwa Road, Kikuyu.
    Phone: +254 723903957 | +254 20608324
    Email : farmers@kenaff.org | kenafffarmers@gmail.com

    With financial support: BMZ
    Voicefunction by responsivevoice.org

    UNYFA LIBRARY

    Email: info (at) unyfa.org
    Phone: +256 (0) 774 532 670

    With financial support: BMZ
    Voicefunction by responsivevoice.org

    responsivevoice.org