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African farming has long followed a familiar routine: plough the land, apply fertiliser, add more fertiliser and wait for harvest. Yet soil science has not always received the same attention as the inputs used to grow crops. Soinato Leboo and her co-founder, Priscilla Wakarera, want to change that by making soil testing faster, more accessible and useful to farmers.
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