Amaranth is an herbaceous annual belonging to the family Amaranthaceae with green or red leaves and branched flower stalks (heads) bearing small seeds, variable in color from cream to gold […]
Amaranthus or pigweed (Mchicha (Swahili), Terere (Kikuyu), Lidodo (Luhya), Ododo (Luo)) Read More »
Narrow-leaved African nightshade is widely distributed throughout the tropics and can be found throughout East Africa. The plant is an erect,many-branched herb growing 0.5 to 1.0m high. The plant bears
In the arid lands of Africa, a lot of rainwater is lost as it falls and flows away. We can harvest a great deal of this water and store it
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A poultry house is a building for housing poultry. There are different types of poultry which are greatly influenced by the rearing system in use.
A dairy house is a farm structure designed to provide sleeping, feeding and milking facilities. It is also known as a zero-grazing unit and the cattle remain in the structure
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Various parts of plants and their extracts are known to be either toxic or repellant to the pests of agriculture and are widely used in rural settings.Some of these extracts
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Soil sampling is the process of taking a small quantity of soil from the field to act as a representative sample of the soil in that particular field.Soil is sampled
