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    Drip irrigation for tomato
    In many countries crop production is limited to the dry season but access to water. Access to water allows some farmers to grow high value vegetable crops during dry season. Drip irrigation saves time, reduces labour, soil sealing and distributes water slowly and evenly to the soil. It also allows plants grow well and produce […]
    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: 00:09:23
    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: 00:14:20
    Hydroponic fodder
    You can cultivate hydroponic fodder without soil in little space. The hydroponic fodder can be produced all over the year, even in the dry season. A difficulty of green fodder is, that often there isn‘t enough land and water to cultivate it. Furthermore, it is difficult to produce fodder around the year. Hydroponic fodder is […]
    Duration: 00:14:54
    Good shelling, sorting and drying of maize
    After harvesting the maize, you have to shell, sort and dry the maize properly until you can sort it. When maize isn‘t stored the right way, it becomes unusable faster. If stored maize is moist, the grain sprouts and moulds can develop easily. This leads to more pests attacking the harvest. Shell, sort and dry […]
    Duration: 00:13:31
    Good storing and conserving maize grain
    For a long stored and healthy maize harvest it is good to know how to store maize properly. Make sure that your storage location is airtight, so that pests don’t have a place to live. Mud granaries Mud granaries should be built on stones to protect them from termites. They have a flap, which is […]
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