10 Things You Need to Know about Glyphosate aka Roundup

Roundup

As a follow-up post on the recent article on whether we should worry about the use of Glyphosate aka roundup, and answer some of the readers’ questions, here’s another yet informative article on the 10 things you need to know about glyphosate.

If you haven’t read that article, find it here

If you have, let’s begin.

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How to Make a Fortune Growing Habanero Pepper

growing habanero pepper in kenya

To some people, agribusiness is a joke. Growing habanero pepper for money is even more foolish. It’s a waste of time and resources.

It just isn’t a career. It isn’t a way to make money.

It’s a hobby, a diversion, a fad that’ll come and go. Sure, you can grow some peppers, but don’t count on them to make you any money. That’s just silly.

Those people find justification in the fact that the global average farmer is at least 60 years old, most likely dirty, with dirty fingernails and definitely with no money.

But wait,

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New Potato Variety to Boost Yields by 88.9%

new potato variety

Have you heard of “Markies” yet? Probably not. Markies is the new potato variety on the block that can increase your profits by as much as 88% but with a downside of taking relatively more time.

Is this something that interests you?

Well, let’s find out.

Irish potato has over the years become one of the staple foods across different countries.

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Here’s Why Greenhouse Farming Is Your Only Option

Greenhouse farming of strawberries

Greenhouse farming is nothing alien to most farmers. This farming technology has been around for many decades but, its adoption has been anything but good.

Till recently, only a small percentage of farmers have been able to adopt and implement greenhouse cultivation of their crops.

Partly because of an initial high cost of investment and partly because some vegetable consumers loathe greenhouse grown food, which in their opinion, are thought to be as good as synthetic.

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