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Episode: Farmers in Africa say their soil is dying, chemical fertilizers are partly to blame
Description: Planting vegetables, Benson Wanjala and his wife are working to cultivate their two-acre plot of land on the outskirts of Nairobi. This is a significant change from Wanjala's farming activities two and a half decades ago, when he farmed a 10-acre plot in his native western Kenya village, 370 kilometers away.
Back then, Wanjala's land yielded a bountiful harvest of 200 bags of corn each season. But this abundance dwindled over the years to a mere 30 bags.
Wanjala attributes this decline to the acidifying fertilizers he used, which he believes rendered his once-fertile land lifeless and unable to support his family.
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