Table of Contents
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
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