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Farmers advised to embrace set of soil fertility management practices

Soil-Testing

NAIROBI, KENYA: Low crop productivity is a perennial problem among smallholder farms. Some factors that contribute to this reality is exponential decline in soil fertility and high fertiliser costs.

In addition, chemical fertilisers do not directly improve soil physical structure or enhance soil biological activity and are often insufficient to maintain soil health.

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