{"title":"Set I · The Soil \u0026 the Field","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhere it all starts: keeping soil, feeding soil, and the year's work in the field. Three booklets from 1976, the first year of the series, adapted from a correspondence course written for farmers in Côte d'Ivoire.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eNo. 5 How to conserve the soil · No. 6 How to improve the soil · No. 7 Crop farming\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"no-5-the-soil-how-to-conserve-the-soil","title":"No. 5 — The Soil","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eHow to conserve the soil\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhy soil washes away, blows away and wears out, and the patient, unglamorous things a farmer can do about it: hedges, terraces, cover, and leaving the land alone. 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