Tanzania
Tanzania is planting avocado at a pace few countries have attempted. More than 1.7 million subsidised seedlings are being distributed, thousands of farmers and hundreds of extension officers are being trained, and collection centres are going up across the producing...
Kenya
The acidity that stunts maize in Kericho and Nandi is the same acidity tea wants. A tea bush is happiest around pH 4.5 to 5.5, roughly where a maize crop starts failing. So a smallholder with tea on one side of the road and maize on the other is farming two crops with...
Kenya
A French bean crop is in the ground about seven to nine weeks. That is the whole window. If the nutrition is wrong in week two you find out in week six, when pods come off soft or curved and there is no time left to fix it. Kenya supplies a large share of...
Kenya
Counterfeit and substandard fertilizer has been a documented problem in the Kenyan market. Bags have reached farmers containing sand and inert filler, regulators have confirmed substandard product in circulation, and consignments have been impounded. Most fertilizer...
Ghana
Stand under a mango tree in the Ghanaian transition zone at flowering and it is covered in panicles carrying hundreds of flowers each. A mature tree flowers by the thousand and might carry a few hundred fruit to harvest. That conversion rate decides a grower’s...
