University Laboratory Offer To Help Farmers Improve Soil Quality
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- 08 Aug 2022
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The University Of Lay Adventist Of Kigali (UNILAK) has promised to help Rwandan community turn around production of their arable land if they seek information on the composition of their soil properties and use it accordingly.
From the perspective of helping the current generation leave the planet safe for the next generation, in 2016 UNILAK, in partnership with the Chinese Academy of Sciences(Xi Jiang Institute) launched a laboratory that deals with land and water analysis.
Under the faculty of environmental studies, the laboratory was divided into two parts to serve two purposes including education and research.
“Sometimes farmers apply fertilizers without knowledge of their land properties – what is available in the land, and what is lacking,” said the dean of Environmental studies at UNILAK, Doctor Mupenzi Christophe.
“Initially, every land of a place has got required nutrients for growing plants, but specific land may be unproductive due to improper use.”
This sends the university beyond the campus boundaries to serve farming communities.
According to Mupenzi, this was the case in Rwamagana district in Nyirabidibiri wetland where farmers grow vegetables, maize among other crops depending on the season.
“We found that acidity of their soil was between 5 and 6.2 which inform the kind of fertilizer to use. Any abuse of fertilizer may lead to environmental and crop’s deterioration,” Mupenzi said. Read More…
