Nairobi — Experts want the ox-plough, sub-Sahara Africa's most popular farming equipment, banned for causing soil degradation. Speaking ahead of the third conservation agriculture congress, the ...

My name is Hakim Mbaziira. I am 30 years old and a resident of Bukujju village, Kayunga Sub-county in Kayunga district. I am a commercial farmer who employs ox-plough technology to till my land.

Back then, farmers used oxen as a labour-saving technology to plough and till the soil. (An ox is a castrated male over four years of age, of any breed of cattle.) Cattle are strong, ...

Plough pan creates hindrance to the infiltration of water under the soil. Due to this, water-logging takes place and drainage capacity of the soil is drastically reduced, thus crop cultivation is ...

Now, however, farmers are coming under pressure to plough less, for the sake of soil health and to reduce their climate impact. The emphasis is on minimising disturbance of the surface, ...

INFORMATION was needed on the extent to which a plough and a rotavator would drag soil-applied chemicals if ploughing or rotavating was done at right-angles to band treatments. A green fluorescent ...