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1. AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT IN TANZANIA
2. FARMING AND LAND TENURE SYSTEMS
6. CONTEMPORARY ISSUES IN AGRICULTURE
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HOW TO IMPROVE AGRICULTURE – PART 3
9.
Plant more densely
It
is the simplest way to improve the productivity of farms, in this plant crops
close together. Many farmers keep their vegetables excessively away, which
leads to the abandonment of large areas growing well.
10.
Increase the use of fertilizers
As soil fertility deteriorates, fertilizer use must increase. Governments need
to ensure the right type of fertilizers are available at the right price, and
at the right times. Fertilizer education lessens the environmental impact and
an analysis of such training programs in East Africa found they boosted average
incomes by 61%.
11.
Tracking Resources and Making Timely Decisions
Relying
on a gut feeling when deciding on farm operations? It is not a really good
idea, since technology can do it for you. Data-driven farm management is the
only safe way to track resource utilization, whether it’s the matter of
tracking work execution, costs for each farm activity or appliance of fertilizers
or pest protection products. Therefore,
tracking the resources per each crop, field, and season, is extremely important
to achieve productive and profitable crop production.
12.
Technical Efficiency (TE)
Achieving
technical efficiency means a farm is producing at the maximum level as allowed
by the technology it has access to. Technology in this sense includes inputs
like soil quality, human capital or labor availability, variable costs,
capital expenses and even the age and education of the farmer can be calculated
as potential factors of technical efficiency.