Grow your own, with care

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2001
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CTA. 2001. Grow your own, with care. Spore 91. CTA, Wageningen, The Netherlands.
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J J Kanjanga, director of the Lipangwe Organic Manure Demonstration Farm in Matale, Malawi, writes about 'LOMADEF s promotion of urban home gardening using organic farming principles. We would like to caution any agency seeing the sense of urban...
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J J Kanjanga, director of the Lipangwe Organic Manure Demonstration Farm in Matale, Malawi, writes about 'LOMADEF s promotion of urban home gardening using organic farming principles. We would like to caution any agency seeing the sense of urban agricultural development as a potential strategy for ensuring food security never to encourage the use of dangerous synthetic chemicals. The reason? Obvious! The damning health and environmental hazards with the use of synthetic fertilisers and pesticides must be avoided. We have a proverb in Malawi that we do not eat with both hands even when we famishing. Away therefore with destructive agrochemicals which make the farmer an innocent murder.'
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Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation
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