Farming Tips

Q: I lose a lot of top soil every rainy season. What can I do to stop this? A: True, heavy rains wash away …

True, bees have little food when there are no flowers. Remember they feed on nectar, which comes from flowers. However, they can also get …

Making manure from dung involves excavating a six-feet by 10 deep feet square pit. One is supposed to collect dung from the animal shelter …

There are four major reasons for soils to become acidic: rainfall and leaching, acidic parent material, organic matter decay, and harvest of high-yielding crops. …

Chips Fresh cassava tubers can be sliced into thin slices and fried to make chips and crisps. These are then deep-fried and packaged and …

Honey A thick, golden liquid produced by industrious bees, honey is made using the nectar of flowering plants and is saved in the beehive …

Wine Cut the fresh pumpkins into small pieces after peeling, then crush them with a pulping machine. Use a fermenter to start the fermenting …

Service period The cow is on heat every 18 to 24 days. The heat period lasts between six and 30 hours. The standing heat …

Keeping Newcastle and other chicken diseases at bay calls for vaccination as one of the best preventive measures. The Newcastle vaccines, just like all …

East Coast Fever is spread through vectors such as ticks when they feed on infected cattle. The high prevalence of the vectors makes the …