In recent years, stakeholders have expressed serious worry about the rising cost of production and the price of fertiliser. Farmers in rural and peri-urban areas are exposed to a booming adulteration market where substandard and inexpensive fertilisers that have minimal or no effect on crops are sold. In this interview, the executive secretary of the…
Four illegal fertiliser blending plants operating in Kano State have been sealed by the Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development. The plants
For the first time ever, farmers the world over all at the same time are testing the limits of how little chemical fertilizer they can apply without devastating their yields come harvest time. Early predictions are bleak.
In Brazil, the world’s biggest soybean producer, a 20 percent cut in potash use could bring a 14 percent drop in yields, industry consultancy MB Agro said. In Costa Rica, a coffee cooperative representing 1,200 small producers sees output falling as much as 15 percent next year if farmers miss even one-third of normal application. In West Africa, falling fertilizer use would