 |  | Better Farming Series 01 - The plant: the Living Plant; the Root (FAO - INADES, 1976, 29 p.) | |||
 |  | Introduction | |||
|  | Why do we study the plant? | |||
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· You want a good crop of yams or cotton.
To get it you must learn how yams or cotton grow.
If you look
after the plants properly you will get good crops.
· You want animals that are in good health and heavier.
To get them, you must give them good grass and grains.
Then
you will get fat oxen and goats.
· Too much nitrogen on groundnuts does not help groundnuts to grow better.
Chloride on tobacco prevents the leaves from
burning.
Nitrogen on maize will produce stronger plants with more
grain.
So you must learn how to use fertilizers.
We must study plants and fertilizers.
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