Wood ash improves groundnut yields

Yields of groundnuts in West Africa are low because the soils are often calcium-deficient and small-scale farmers cannot afford to buy the supplements. However a simple remedy is to add wood ash to the soil. Groundnuts grown when there is a...

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation
Format: News Item
Language:Inglés
Published: Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation 1995
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/47125
Description
Summary:Yields of groundnuts in West Africa are low because the soils are often calcium-deficient and small-scale farmers cannot afford to buy the supplements. However a simple remedy is to add wood ash to the soil. Groundnuts grown when there is a...