1. Access Agriculture Training Video Legumes are important in crop rotations, because they reduce weeds and enrich the soil by partnering with nitrogen-fixing bacteria in the soil. To be sure your soil has the right bacteria, you can buy an inoculant of Rhizobium bacteria. Rhizobium bacteria can...
  2. Access Agriculture Training Video Raised beds must be 20 to 30 centimetres high, 80 to 100 centimeters wide and the furrows 30 to 40 centimeters wide. The beds can be 50 to 100 meters long depending on the slope of the field. Because the beds are wide, water is channelled faster through the land,...
  3. Access Agriculture Training Video With pitcher irrigation, round porous clay pots are buried into the soil near the crop and filled with water. The water seeps out slowly through the porous walls of the pot and reaches the roots of the plants. As the plants consume the water, more water will seep...
  4. AccessAgriculture Training Video Las feromonas atraen y ayudan a matar a los machos, a modo que no pueden aparearse con las hembras. Y sin aparearse, las moscas hembras no podrán poner huevos. Para atraer a las moscas machos con feromonas, matarlos y proteger las feromonas de la lluvia, hay que...
  5. Access Agriculture Training Video One fruit fly can lay a few hundred eggs during her life. Fruit flies puncture the skin of fruit to lay their eggs, which cause the fruit to drop prematurely and rot. The worms that hatch from these eggs leave the spoilt fruit after one week and crawl into the...
  6. AccessAgriculture Training Video Los árboles producen madera y leña, pero también fruta, vainas, hojas y medicinas para la gente y el ganado. Algunas especies ayudan a mejorar la fertilidad del suelo y a bajar la temperatura local. El sistema sostiene a cultivos y al ganado. Idiomas disponibles...
  7. AccessAgriculture Training Video Una barrera viva o un lindero de protección son filas de arbustos, árboles o pastos que protegen el suelo del viento. Las filas de arbustos y árboles tienen que ser tupidas para desviar el viento. Las filas de arbustos y árboles no dejan llevar la tierra. Idiomas...
  8. Access Agriculture Training Video It is very important to have a product that doesn’t change, that is of the same quality, the same taste, the same colour and that is well presented. Available languages Arabic Bambara Bangla Bemba Chichewa / Nyanja English Fon French Kikuyu Kinyarwanda / Kirundi...
  9. AccessAgriculture Training Video Los zaís, como se conocen en Burkina Faso, o tassa en Níger, son fosas anchas y profundas para sembrar. Se comportan como microcuencas y pueden usarse para rehabilitar el suelo si se usa con estiércol. Han sido muy exitosos en África Occidental durante los últimos...
  10. Access Agriculture Training Video It is important to pull striga weeds with your hands before the time it produces seeds and spreads. As it is laborious, better reduce the number of striga plants by applying compost or manure, and by rotating or intercropping with non-cereal crops, such as...