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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