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    Flood tolerant rice
    Some new rice varieties can tolerate floods for two weeks. If you live in flooded areas, you should ask your local dealer where to get flood tolerant rice varieties. Sometimes lowland rice gets destroyed by floods. Flood water stands for a long time and kills the plants. It damages them, because it blocks the sunlight, […]
    Duration: 00:17:47
    Striga management in rice
    Striga can attack plants during the season and even in the following season. So you should now how to protect your rice from striga attacks. Striga is a parasite weed which is bad for rice, maize and other cereal crops. It attacks the roots of the crops and suck their water and nutrients. Therefore, the […]
    Duration: 00:15:40
    Killing fall armyworms naturally
    You can kill armyworms with natural ingredients to protect your maize. Fall armyworms eat maize leaves. They often leave behind big holes in the leaves, and sometimes feed themselves until the maize ears. This has to be taken serious. Fall armyworms can be caterpillars, which are hiding in the maize, eggs or adults in form […]
    Duration: 00:14:00
    Managing aflatoxins in maize before and during harvest
    Different ideas to protect maize from aflatoxins help farmers before and during harvest. Aflatoxins are unhealthy for people and animals. If you feed your animals with food that is affected by aflatoxins, their productivity will be lower and the milk, eggs and meat can transmit aflatoxins to us. Considering a longer term of eating aflatoxins, […]
    Duration: 00:15:03
    Managing aflatoxins in maize during drying and storage
    To have a good harvest, it is important to know how to protect maize from aflatoxins after the harvest. Dried and stored maize can develop moulds. These moulds produce a poison which is called Aflatoxin. Aflatoxins affect our health. Therefore, humans and animals should not eat affected grains. If you feed your animals with mouldy […]
    Duration: 00:13:42
    Harvesting maize in a good way
    Learning the process of harvesting maize and recognizing the time of harvest will give you a successful harvest. The corn is ripe when the leaves and the husk start to dry and become yellow. Furthermore, the hairs at the tip of the husk start to fall down. When you press your fingers into the ripe […]
    Duration: 00:17:00
    Rice weed management
    Weeds are major problems to rice farmers as they make land preparation difficult, take water and nutrients and reduce rice yields therefore proper. The 2 major weed are perenial and annual weeds. Under low land areas planting should be spaced at 15cm and for direct sowing weed after 3 weeks and after 2 – 3 […]
    Duration: 00:10:48
    Maize Land Preparation Techniques
    Maize is a major staple food crop and does well under rain fed conditions. Proper land preparation and planting ensures high returns from investment. Planting depth for maize should be 30cm. Farmers should always prepare land and plant early to control weeds, controls soil erosion and proper seed germination. Land clearing involves removing plants stones […]
    Duration: 00:03:38
    Maize Post Harvest Practices
    Many farmers loose large volumes of maize due to poor post harvest practices ensuring proper maize post practices increase yields and lowers post harvest losses. Well dried maize grains are very hard and produce a loud ringing sound when poured and do not stick in hand when pressed. However maize can be harvested when still […]
    Duration: 00:07:12
    Crop rotation (English)
    Crops have different nutrient requirements and affect soil balance differently. A good crop rotation plan increases soil fertility resulting into increased yields. Benefits Controls field pests and diseases since these attack specific crops. Leguminous crops fix nitrogen in soil hence rejuvenating soils hence continuous balance of soil nutrients. Rotation plan Identify the type of soil […]
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