Tuesday, September 20, 2011

DON'T GET FIREWOOD FROM YOUR TEA FARM


Tea is a major cash crop among farmers both large-scale and small-scale. This means the much care you give unto you crop the higher you will reap.
Other than other professional means of ensuring the yield increases, fertilizer application is crucial to add nutrients to the land under tea farming.

Prune remains left to be manure in a tea plantation

As a tea farmer avoid collecting remains from tea pruning in your shamba as this add up to the fertility of your land and subsequently improve tea yields.
As a small-scale farmer, avoid temptations of picking firewood from your tea plantation.

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