How much do you know about conservation farming?
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BBC News has an interesting piece about how simple, ecologically sensitive, small-scale agriculture bumped one Zambian farmer's crop yields so much that his neighbors were convinced he was using witchcraft of some sort.
It all began about 10 years ago when Elleman Mumba started practicing Conservation Farming, after his wife had been given free training in the techniques. For those that don't know Conservation Farming uses techniques which may seem familiar to anyone following the greening of agriculture here.
