‘SOIL IS OUR GREATEST ASSET’

Swaziland is fighting a struggle to liberate herself from being categorised as a developing country to be labeled as a First World country.

This latter category is a goal that is being pursued by most Swazis.
His Majesty vocalised this vision and urged the nation to share this attainable vision. One of Swaziland’s mission statements has always been ‘the soil is our greatest asset, help conserve it’, translated as ‘umhlaba uyimpilo yeftu, wonge nawe’.

Today is the perfect time that such a powerful statement is literally implemented on our soil. Swaziland’s biggest wealth is in her fertile soil. Swazi cashcows like sugar are nurtured on our very soil and exported abroad. We harvest water from beneath, pure and uncontaminated by the chemicals we put into the soil.
Farmers solely focus on producing plants; their main objective is harvesting healthy crops. But what about producing healthy soil? Year after year we subject the soil to chemical fertilisers like nitrogen which breaks down into nitrates and travel easily through the soil resulting to underground water contamination. This contaminated water has been linked to stomach cancer, gastric cancer, goiter birth malformations and hypertension.

Excessive air and water-borne nitrogen from chemical fertilisers may cause respiratory ailments, cardiac disease, and several cancers, as well as can ‘inhibit crop growth, increase allergenic pollen production and potentially affect the dynamics of several vector-borne diseases, including malaria and cholera. Another profound effect of chemical fertiliser is methemoglobinemia, known as the ‘blue baby syndrome.’
The danger often arises when infants are given a formula reconstituted with nitrate contaminated water. This condition will cause a decrease in oxygen in the blood and the skin will change to a blue grey skin colour, causing tiredness and/or irritability and can lead to coma or death.

Most developed countries have discovered these side effects of chemical fertilisers, thus, awareness has been communicated to consumers to use organic products. Organic products are grown using organic fertilisers. It can be used on flowers, crops, trees, vegetables, vegetation and fruits. This fertiliser has all the nutrients needed by plants. Repeated use of organic fertiliser nourishes the soil’s micro organisms, making the soil more fertile. Manyolo Organic Solutions is a Swaziland-based company that produces and sells organic fertiliser. Our product has been tried, tested and approved. Satisfied farmers, industries, home owners etc now use this product.

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