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Soil-health

From Agricultural Encyclopedia for Farmers

Soil health

Chapter 4.1.1

Soil testing

Chapter 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

Chapter 4.8

Adding organic nutrients to home gardens

Chapter 4.9

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

Chapter 4.10

Livestock sheds and collecting urine to add to manure

Chapter 4.11

Compost improvement

Chapter 4.12

Microdosing of manure

Chapter 4.13

Treating seeds with urine

Chapter 4.15

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

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)

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 farmers

Chapter 4.31

Covering manure from rain during storage

Chapter 4.32

Sesbania rostrata as green manure for smallholder farmers

Chapter 4.33

Split application of synthetic fertilizer

Chapter 4.34

Vetch as a cover crop for small scale farmers

Chapter 4.35

Legume rhizobia inoculation using nodule crushing

Chapter 4.36

Coconut Coir Pith: Waste to Effective Compost

Chapter 4.37

Fish Waste as Organic Fertilizer

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