Abstract:
Intercropping offers an alternative, free source of soil and crop fertilization. Farmers still use chemical fertilizers, (but only as a top-up) returning twice as much seed to the seed bank as they were given at the start of the season, so the project reaches more farmers every year. The project distributes legume seeds and teaches farmers to plant them in between rows of maize and other grains like sorghum. The system is called intercropping. Legumes act to draw and fix nitrogen in the soil.
