Agricultural development in ACP countries

ACP = African, Carribean, and Pacific countries. This is an excellent page on innovations in agricultural cultivation. The following articles seem really interesting.

Just like drumsticks in India, grain amaranth is grown in Kenya and is resilient to drought, pests, and diseases, while also carrying high nutritional value.

The hammer mill is a portable grain mill, and it is definitely a good idea for the farmers to mill their produce themselves, rather than ship it off to large granaries. Doing it at the source itself will help eliminate middlemen and hence corruption, and also bring in more money for the farmers.

Like Waste Concern from Bangladesh, similar organizations are active in the Carribean as well that use waste to produce biogas for power, and fertilizers for the fields. Infact, waste products from rice husks can be dried and used as fuel.

Some species of nitrogen-fixing plants have also been identified that can be grown with agricultural plants and convert atmospheric nitrogen to benefit other neighboring plants.