Replacing a seed plate on the Earthway planter is no sweat. Driving country roads in March or maybe April, you're likely to see a few of these in use for family vegetable gardens. The Stand 'n Plant ...

Planting crops in very huge tracts of land with hand hoe can be a tedious activity that could go on for days, increasing the cost of labour for a farmer. In the normal planting system here in Uganda ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover the intersection of technology, farming and food. He started researching rural agriculture in sub-Saharan Africa, and that ...

Planting lettuce seedlings in the field. Photo by Lominda Afedraru. Though conditions in UK and Uganda are very different. Large scale commercial farming is faced with a similar challenge: How to ...