Agriculture and Farming

Use a tin can or plastic bottle as a mini-reservoir alongside your seeds or seedlings.

An interesting booklet on how to care for your cattle, including hints on milking, breeding and the care of your calves.

This is an introduction to keeping hens. It covers building a hen house and what sort of food to provide.

Advice on the daily care of poultry, food and water and how to choose good hens.

Advice on how to select the right hens for reproduction, the right eggs for incubation and the care of newly hatched chicks.

This deals with the symptoms and treatment of various diseases and pests that affect chickens.

Harvesting seeds enables farmers to avoid purchasing them from others each year.

Coping with Climate Change: Tips for Farmers

Crickets — the New Cattle?

Advice is given to enable farmers to propagate cultivated eru from cuttings.

How to give maize seedlings an early start and save time between crops.

Farming with Disabilities

How to buy a few cows, look after them, fatten them up and sell them for a profit.

An overview of relevant Shell Books on farming and food.

Gardening for Better Nutrition

This contains three simple ideas for planting some herbs or vegetables where space is limited.

A suggested design for a raised grain or food store to discourage raids by rats and mice.

Advice on how to cultivate bamboo plants from cuttings.

Growing mushrooms can provide a useful extra income stream or supply additional protein for the family diet.

Growing vegetables in plastic bags.

Some methods of harvesting fruit are dangerous and damage the fruit. Using a container on the end of a stick is safe and fruit can be picked without damage.

Helpful Weeds which are beneficial to farmers

This explains what equipment and methods are needed to extract honey from the honeycomb.

This book shows how to make a donkey-powered plough and how to ensure the donkey can pull it comfortably and well.

Instructions on how to make a compost container out of an old oil drum.

This booklet tells you how to use red chilli peppers to help keep pests away from your crops.

This explains how to manage bees: planning the work, inspecting the hive and understanding what you see.

Tip on how to store grain effectively and at a low cost

Coccidiosis is a disease in chickens which is caused by parasites. This book describes how to treat it.

This book describes and illustrates six systems for growing fruit and vegetables hydroponically.

This booklet helps you to increase the number of chickens you have.

Here are some basic suggestions for keeping ducks on a fish pond.

How to make and wear a cheap and simple bee veil.

How to make a simple beehive from local and low-cost materials.

Farmers and gardeners use compost to improve their soils and increase their crop yields. This book describes one approach to making compost.

This book explains how natural regeneration by farmers using simple, low-cost techniques can encourage the re-growth of trees from live stumps and from seeds in the ground.

This book tells you how to cultivate olive trees and how their fruit and wood can be used, along with some references to olives in the Bible.

Advice on siting, building and maintaining a fishpond, then buying, farming and harvesting the fish to go in it.

A goat is a good animal to keep because it gives very good milk and meat.

This is the first in a series of four books on planting and maintaining a rice paddy. It looks at how to plant rice.

This is the second in a series of four books on planting and maintaining a rice paddy. It looks at problems with poor soil.

This is the third in a series of four books on planting and maintaining a rice paddy. It looks at problems with pests.

This is the fourth in a series of four books on planting and maintaining a rice paddy. It looks at problems with diseases.

Guinea pigs are easy to raise for households and small-scale farmers.

Rabbits are useful animals for individual farmers, village groups and schools.

How to create a tree nursery from the preparation of the ground to planting trees and caring for them.

This explains how to use the heat of the sun to sterilise seed beds.

Two Farmers Talking about Conservation Agriculture

Two Productive Gardens: The Midi and the Mini

This booklet explains how to keep pests from your crops by using ash from wood or rice husks.