Increase Crop Production (Using “Animal Impact”) Workshop

This is a 2-day (3 night) workshop most suitable for farmers or organisations interested in conservation agriculture. Farmers and/or facilitators are shown how to kraal community livestock on successive portions of harvested crop fields at night for about seven days to break up the soil with their hooves and deposit dung and urine. This treatment has more than doubled (five times, in some cases) maize yields compared to community control fields. Animal impacting makes abandoned fields usable again. It also eliminates the labour required to transport manure to the field.