Conservation tillage on Kenyan shambas
Agriculture · Grade 10 · about 40 minutes
How a smallholder applies conservation agriculture: minimum disturbance, permanent cover and rotation, using a jab planter or hoe holes, and the real obstacles of livestock, weeds and neighbour opinion.
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