“If I buy fertiliser, it means my grandchildren will not go to school. I had to use anthill soil and compost as manure but, as you know, that will not yield much,” said 50-year-old Kanenungo.
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Smallholder farmers count cost of fertiliser price spike

HELPLESSLY watching her maize turn yellow as she waited for free fertiliser from the government, Zimbabwean farmer Marian Kanenungo had nothing but makeshift compost from an anthill to help save her crop — and she had low hopes of that. Kanenungo, a smallholder farmer in Mudzi, 230km north-west of the capital Harare, is one of…

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