Salifu James needs six to eight 50kg bags of fertiliser for his 35 acres of rice and sugarcane crops. But the 49-year-old farmer could only buy a single bag this year. To make up for the low quantity, he adopted the broadcast method of fertiliser application – spreading the substance uniformly across the field.
“I need the required quantity per acre to get the right result but I bought NPK 20:10:10 fertiliser at N27,000, so I have to manage what I can afford as I have to buy…
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