Agroforestry in Africa
Agroforestry is known as the management and integration of trees, crops and/or livestock on the same plot of land. It has also been proven...
Champoining the Cause: Youths in Agriculture
Youths over Africa vehemently complain and protest against lack of unemployment, considering ‘white colour jobs’ and ‘blue colour jobs’ as the only jobs in...
IMPROVING NUTRITIONAL EGG VALUE
Effect of Innovative Emulsifier on egg quality in layer hen diets
The egg is one of the basic principles pillars of our daily diet...
Tractor Counterweights
Tractors are used in the agriculture industry to lift, lower and transport heavy loads. They operate such that once the tractor starts the required...
Grain and seed cleaning and storage – why is it so important?
by Facet Engineering CEO, Colin Fairweather:
The quality of harvested grain and seed is dependent on a few important factors, these include: the settings and...
Intercropping as a sustainable farming method
Intercropping has been receiving little to no acknowledgment at all from scientists. This is despite its practice being around for centuries by millions of...
Benefits of technological advancements in farming
Hundreds of years ago, long before the dawn and large-scale adoption of mechanized farming, the world depended on manual labor for agricultural processes. It...
Tick management
Africa’s failure to successfully mitigate tick attacks and diseases has had a negative outcome as far as livestock productivity is concerned. This is so...
AN INDISPENSABLE REFERENCE FOR MODERN FARMERS
SOUTH AFRICA, September 2018 – Environmental Manager and licensed drone pilot, Louise Jupp has released her debut book, titled ‘Precision Farming from Above: How...
Banana wilt; modes of transmission, prevention and control measures
By Nita Karume :
Xanthomonas wilt of banana, better known as BXW is a bacterial disease that affects banana plants. The disease was first reported in...