soil

Prof. Lateef Taiwo, a soil scientist at the Institute of Agricultural Research and Training (IAR&T), Ibadan, have advised farmers to do planting to favour adequate mobilisation of soil nutrients for optimal growth. According to…

Getting crops to do well is often seen as something agrochemicals can fix; either fertilizer when it strictly yields or herbicides when there are weeds. However, as most farmers are more concerned about yield, regenerating the soil and…

WORRIED about the low productivity of soil due to its acidic nature, a fertilizer company OCP Africa has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Nigerian Institute of Soil Science (NISS) to improve soil fertility. In the MoU, OCP…