Overcoming Soil Infertility Louise Labuschagne, (Real IPM Kenya Ltd)
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Overcoming Soil Infertility
Louise Labuschagne, (Real IPM Kenya Ltd)
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Good Soil FertilityExport Horticulture - GAP
• Produce compost and returnorganic matter to soil• Rotate crops to maintain soil fertility• Invest in drip irrigation• Test soils for pH and NPK• Qualified to manage fertiliser programmes
• Employs 3.5 million directly + 4.5 million indirectly• Earns 73.7 billion Ksh in foreign exchange / 2008• 60% of exports grown by SSF
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What’s the real problem?
Natural tendency to phosphate deficiency
Naturally acidic soils
Managed by export farmersNot managed by SSF (if not involved in export sector)
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Real IPM – SSF Programme
DFID – funded programme Gro Plus
Call Centre database of 50,000 SSF Western Kenya
Gro Plus seed treatments - > yield by 10 - 20%
Costs 130/- of Gro Plus per 2 kg of seedMaize planted at 20 kg of seed / ha or 4 kg/acre
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Real IPM – SSF Programme
SIDA – funded programme Organic Matter mapping
Soil sampling in Western, Central and Coast
Farmer Practice (crops, soil fertility management)
Report due in two months
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Real IPM – SSF Programme
KENFAP – funded programme bio-slurry from biogas units
Replicated trials - cabbages
Recording yields – application rates
Report due in three months
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Soil Fertility Problem
Impoverished small scale farmers (not in export)tend to be:
• risk averse• purchase insufficient inputs to ensure yields• don’t analyse soil• conservative land use strategies (maize and cows)• less aware of the importance of pH• reliant on agrovets for advice
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Poverty Cycle
impoverished farmers = impoverished soils
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Long term solution
No ‘quick fix’
Good Agricultural Practice – rotation, recycling organic matter
Competent advisors (pH & fertiliser programmes)
Competent advisors (crop protection programmes)
Solution
Competent Training of Trainers
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Mitigation
Real IPM (Kenya) Ltd
FACTS (UK diploma for Fertiliser Advisors)
BASIS (UK diploma for Crop Protection Advisors)
Bio-fertilisers
Phosphate starter seed treatment (Gro Plus)
www.realipm.com
Crop-specific IPM courses for Self-Help Groups
Training of Trainers
Also available:
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Bio-fertilisers
Registered in South Africa as bio-fertilisers
Use on any crop – seed treatment, spray and drench
Trichoderma asperellum & Bacillus subtilis
Solubilize phosphate from soil
Promote root growth
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Bio-fertilisers
Seed treatment for beans
Symbiotic relationship with bean roots
Rhizobium
Fixes nitrogen in air – makes it available to plant
Must incorporate crop residues for soil fertility
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Mitigation
Real Impact NGO
Demonstration and Training
Pile composting
Agro-Nutrition
Planting programmes + nutritionally balanced menus
www.realimpact.or.ke
Vermi-fertiliser production (liquid and solid)
Crop Rotation
DFID, USAID, Leonard Cheshire Homes funded programmes
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Contact us
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Capacity Building?