...NPK’s 50kg more expensive than bag of maize The average price of NPK has surged by 41 percent over the past year, forcing farmers to abandon food crops in favour of cash crops that require less synthetic manure. Food crops such as maize, rice, cassava, yam and vegetables require large amounts of fertilizer to thrive, while cash crops like sesame, sorghum, soybeans, groundnuts, cotton, millet and ginger can grow with relatively little, farmers say. Fertilizer prices The average cost of fe
...NPK’s 50kg more expensive than bag of maize The average price of NPK has surged by 41 percent over the past year, forcing farmers to abandon food crops in favour of cash crops that require less synthetic manure. Food crops such as maize, rice, cassava, yam and vegetables require large amounts of fertilizer to thrive, while cash crops like sesame, sorghum, soybeans, groundnuts, cotton, millet and ginger can grow with relatively little, farmers say. Fertilizer prices The average cost of fe