Soil testing is a crucial practice for assessing soil fertility, structure, and biological health. It helps farmers, land managers, and researchers make informed decisions regarding fertilizer application, irrigation, and land use. Understanding soil properties allows for improved crop yields, soil conservation, and environmental sustainability (Brady & Weil, 2019). This guide provides step-by-step procedures…
Category: Agriculture
About El-Paradiso Demo Farm
El-Paradiso Demo Farm is an innovative mini-agricultural demo farm situated in a beautiful valley in a peri-urban area setup, off Magadi-Maasai Lodge Rd, next to Nazarene University, Pharmada Island, Ongata Rongai, Kenya. The demo farm integrates diverse agricultural practices with a strong emphasis on organic and climate-smart farming systems.
Components of Climate Smart Agriculture in Kenya’s Perspective
Climate-Smart Agriculture (CSA) is an integrated approach to managing farms, crops, livestock, forests, and fisheries to address the challenges of climate change while ensuring food security. This article covers the key components of Climate-Smart Agriculture in Kenya’s Perspective
HOW TO CONDUCT LIKERT SCALE ANALYSIS
Likert scale is a psychometric scale that is used to measure people’s opinions, attitudes and preferences. It is used in several fields of study such as social sciences. This article presents an introduction on the origin of likert scale and further examines how to conduct a likert scale analysis by using an example.
MAJOR DONOR AGENCIES FUNDING AGRICULTURE
Funding is essential towards ensuring the growth of a sustainable agricultural sector. There are a number of top key organizations that are involved in funding agricultural related projects. The article presents an overview of these organizations.
FUNDING AGRICULTURE IN AFRICA
Agriculture is one of the single most important economic activities among African countries. Thus, this article aims to discuss funding agriculture in Africa. This article provides a brief review of funding Agriculture in Africa. The article provides an overview of Agriculture in Africa while highlighting the government’s key contribution to agriculture through the input subsidy program. Further, the article examines funding Agriculture in Africa with focus on the key reasons for funding agriculture in the continent. The review unpacks the economic importance of agriculture, while stressing the need to focus on funding not only by development partners, but also governments!
Measures to Address Food Insecurity in Developing Countries
By Anthony M. Wanjohi: The right to adequate food, like any other human right, imposes some obligations on the State: The state has obligation to respect existing access to adequate food. This requires the state not to take any measures that result in preventing such access. It also requires the state to ensure that third…
Milk Processing Plant Feasibility Study in West Pokot County, Kenya
West Pokot County is one of the 47 Counties in Kenya, which is said to produce high quality milk. However, various challenges have continued to face the county including but not limited to poor milk pricing due to monopoly and lack of processing facilities which could handle the high quality milk produced in the region….