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...
Ghana
Every harvest takes nutrients off the farm. Grain leaves in a truck, residues get burned or grazed, and almost nothing goes back. Nutrient balance studies for Ghanaian crops show a deficit for nearly all of them. Do that for twenty years around Tamale and the result...
Ghana
Here is a finding that should be better known than it is. When researchers mapped the nutrient requirements of Ghana’s cocoa soils against the blanket fertilizer formula recommended nationally, the formula matched only about six percent of the land actually...
Ghana
Ghana sells pineapple into Europe on a promise most origins cannot make: fruit every week of the year. Mangoes and pineapples together carry roughly two thirds of the country’s horticultural export value, and buyers in the EU and UK pay for continuity as much as...
