Some of the most important allies in the fight against hunger are invisible to the naked eye. In a laboratory at the University of Cape Coast in Ghana, researchers have shown that two humble soil amendments—biochar made from oil palm waste and compost blended with poultry manure—can dramatically awaken the microbial life in one of West Africa’s most degraded agricultural soils. The findings, published in Discover Soil, suggest that the combinati…
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