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Crisis in the soil: Fertilizer shortage and depleting land risk food security

Soil health. Farmers should stop looking as soil as dirt. It is biodiversity. [FILE]

The planting season is approaching in Kenya’s breadbasket areas, in line with the March-April-May rains.

Farmers are already queuing at National Cereals and Produce Board (NCPB) outlets to purchase subsidized fertilizer.

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