Ensuring rice crops get enough nutrients and that fertilizers are not wasted helps ensures a good harvest and healthy environment.


Ensuring rice crops get enough nutrients and that fertilizers are not wasted helps ensures a good harvest and healthy environment.

Researchers explain cowpea alley cropping system.

Giant clam land nursery tank – Aruligo, Solomon Islands. Photo by Mike McCoy, 2001

CIMMYT posted a photo: Mr Chipeni began employing conservation agriculture (CA) practices seven years ago, and is still trying new things—“I just started the maize-groundnut rotation and I believe I’ll benefit,” he says. The biggest advantage o…

CIMMYT posted a photo: A farmer’s field in Malawi under conservation agriculture (CA), showing rotation of maize and groundnut (visible in adjacent plots) and the retention of crop residues. The farmer, Mr Chipeni, began employing CA practices se…