India
Two national programmes have measured micronutrients in Indian soils using different methods and different sample sizes. ICAR’s coordinated project analysed about 243,000 samples across 615 districts. The Soil Health Card programme analysed more than 30 million....
Tanzania
Horticulture has quietly become Tanzania’s biggest agricultural export earner, bringing in around 569 million US dollars in 2024, ahead of tobacco and cashew, and aiming at two billion by 2030. The bottleneck now is not growing the crop. It is getting it to a...
Ghana
For years the biggest question in Ghana’s fertilizer trade was what the government would tender for. Ministry procurement moved large volumes under the subsidy programme, COCOBOD procured separately for cocoa, and a few large suppliers handled most of what...
Tanzania
No Tanzanian smallholder walks past subsidised urea. When a bag that cost around 131,000 shillings comes down closer to 70,000, that is what most farmers buy, and arguing otherwise wastes everyone’s time. The useful question is why a bag that should transform a...
Tanzania
An importer evaluating a new fertilizer supplier is not really assessing the fertilizer. They are assessing whether it can be registered, whether it arrives on time, whether the documentation survives inspection, and whether they can move it once it lands. The...
