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<p>[[Chapter 5.2|Chapter 5.2 Tied ridging to capture and prevent erosion]]</p>

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Chapter 1 LAND PREPARATION AND SOWING

Chapter 1.1 Gloves to help subsistence farmers

Chapter 1.2. Low-cost grain moisture sensor for drying and storing grain

Chapter 1.3 Soaking seeds before planting (seed priming)

Chapter 1.4 Sowing seeds in rows (line sowing)

Chapter 1.6 Low-cost tools to sow seeds

Chapter 1.7 Reducing seedling crowding after sowing (thinning)

Chapter 1.8 Tools to transplant seedlings

Chapter 1.9 Raking tool (e.g. to collect weeds)-IN PROGRESS

Chapter 1.10 Community seed bank-IN PROGRESS

Chapter 1.11 Dry Sowing of Wheat Seeds

Chapter 2 CROP AND TREE INTENSIFICATION

Chapters 2.1 Intercropping cereals and legumes-IN PROGRESS

Chapters 2.2 Relay cropping-IN PROGRESS

Chapters 2.3 Vegetable seed packages for home gardens-IN PROGRESS

Chapter 2.4/2.5 Tarpaulin/silpaulin for greenhouse and low tunnel construction-IN PROGRESS

Chapters 2.6 Grafting to improve tree propagation

Chapters 2.7 Soil clump test to determine if root/tuber crops can be planted

Chapters 2.8 Intercropping and relay cropping in a ginger cropping system

Chapters 2.9 Producing Hybrid Maize Seeds for Smallholder Farmers

Chapters 2.10 Mesh Shade Greenhouse for Small Scale Farmers

Chapters 2.11 Analysis of the System of Rice Intensification (SRI) for Smallholder Farmers

Chapters 2.12 Intercropping Wheat and Green Peas for Smallholder Farmers

Chapters 2.13 Plastic coated twist ties for small scale farmers

Chapters 2.14 Cowpea-Maize Intercropping as a Biofertilizer Strategy

Chapters 2.15 Intercropping Maize and Common Bean

Chapter 3 TERRACE AND HILLSIDE AGRICULTURE

Chapters 3.1 Yam in sacks on terrace walls

Chapter 3.2a Climbing beans on terrace walls

Chapter 3.2b Climbing chayote squash on terrace walls

Chapter 3.3a Waterfall-type legumes on terrace edges-IN PROGRESS

Chapters 3.4b Waterfall-type cucurbits on terrace edges-IN PROGRESS

Chapter 4 SOIL HEALTH

Chapter 4.1.1 Soil testing

Chapters 4.1.2 Litmus paper and liming for adjusting soil pH

Chapter 4.3 Shallow trenching to prevent erosion, conserve water

Chapter 4.4 Contour farming on hillsides to prevent erosion

Chapter 4.5 Living grass barriers to prevent erosion

Chapter 4.7 Bijramata: An indigenous biofertilizer-IN PROGRESS

Chapter 4.8 Adding organic nutrients to home gardens

Chapter 4.9 Improving biofertilizer application for smallholder farmers using Pivot Bio

Chapter 4.10 Livestock sheds and collecting urine to add to manure

Chapter 4.11 Compost improvement

Chapter 4.12 Microdosing of manure-IN PROGRESS

Chapter 4.13 Treating seeds with urine

Chapter 4.15 A critical assessment of the utility of manure pellet machines for smallholder farmers

Chapter 4.16.1 Synthetic fertilizers: primer and raising yields

Chapter 4.16.2 Balanced fertilization

Chapter 4.17 Microdosing of synthetic fertilizers

Chapter 4.18 Cover crop - Mucuna pruriens (velvet bean)-IN PROGRESS

Chapter 4.20 Leaf colour change to diagnose fertilizer needs

Chapter 4.23.1 Optimizing legume productivity using molybdenum fertilizer

Chapter 4.24.1 Rhizobia bacteria inoculants for legumes

Chapter 4.24.2 Optimizing rhizobia inoculants for legumes

Chapter 4.27 Pigeon pea for degraded soils

Chapter 4.28 Azolla-Anabaena symbiosis in rice paddies

Chapter 4.29 Vermicomposting

Chapter 4.30 Banana peduncle as a source of organic potassium fertilizer/biochar for small scale African

Chapter 4.31 Covering manure from rain during storages

Chapter 4.32 Sesbania rostrata as Green Manure for Smallholder Famers

Chapter 4.33 Split Application of Synthetic Fertilizer

Chapter 4.34 Vetch as a cover crop for small scale farmers

Chapter 5 WATER AND DROUGHT RESILIENCY

Chapter 5.2 Tied ridging to capture and prevent erosion