A farm attendant doing mulching at a cabbage farm in Kisumu county. [Denish Ochieng, Standard]
Want to improve your soil? Plant cover crops. A cover crop is grown primarily for the benefit of the soil rather than the crop yield. Cover crops are an important part of sustainable agriculture. They add fertility to the soil without chemical fertilisers via biological nitrogen fixation.
Once a cover crop is fully grown, or the farmer wants to plant in an area that has a cover crop,...