Section 4

Soil Health

     Chapter 4.1.1

Soil testing

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      Chapter 4.1.2

Litmus paper and liming for adjusting soil pH

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      Chapter 4.3

Shallow trenching to prevent erosion, conserve water**

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      Chapter 4.4

Contour farming on hillsides to prevent erosion

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      Chapter 4.5

Living grass barriers to prevent erosion**

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      Chapter 4.7

Evaluating azolla as a sustainable animal feed for smallholder farmers

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      Chapter 4.8

Adding organic nutrients to home gardens

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      Chapter 4.9

Improving biofertilizer application for smallholder farmers using pivot bio nitrogen fixing bacteria on maize (corn) crops

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      Chapter 4.10

Livestock sheds and collecting urine to add to manure

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      Chapter 4.11

Compost improvement

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      Chapter 4.12

Microdosing of manure

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      Chapter 4.13

Treating seeds with urine

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      Chapter 4.15

A critical assessment of the utility of manure pellet machines for smallholder farmers experiencing low soil fertility

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      Chapter 4.16.1

Synthetic fertilizers: primer and raising yields

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      Chapter 4.16.2

Balanced fertilization

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      Chapter 4.17

Microdosing of synthetic fertilizers

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      Chapter 4.18

Split application of synthetic fertilizer**

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      Chapter 4.20

Leaf colour change to diagnose fertilizer needs

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      Chapter 4.23.1

Optimizing legume productivity using molybdenum fertilizer

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      Chapter 4.24.1

Rhizobia bacteria inoculants for legumes

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      Chapter 4.24.2

Optimizing rhizobia inoculants for legumes

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      Chapter 4.27

Pigeon pea for degraded soils

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      Chapter 4.28

Azolla-Anabaena symbiosis in rice paddies

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