Trichotech is applied preventively – before diseases occur in the plants. Dudutech’s biological solution for control of soil-borne fungal diseases in a bid …
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By George Munene The International Potato Center (CIP) has released CIP-Matilde a potato variety highly resistant to late blight disease responsible for the historic Irish Potato Famine and an estimated Sh1.7 trillion (USD 14 billion) in potato crop destruction annually. The variety which was grown in Peru and whose planting materials have been sent to …
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Centre for Agriculture and Bioscience International (CABI), a not-for-profit inter-governmental development and information organization, has devised an e-learning course that will enable farmers to gain skills and methodologies required for the field-based diagnosis of pests and diseases. The practical e-learning course dubbed, PestSmart is the first in a series of new and unique e-learning courses …
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Beekeepers can cheaply and easily keep off crawling insects that invade their beehives in search of food by smearing on the hives’ posts grease mixed with Vaseline (petroleum jelly) and curry powder rather than using grease alone which is not fully effective. According to Ezekiel Mumo, Project Officer at Bee Care Apiaries International Limited, using …
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Goat and sheep farmers can reduce kids/lambs mortality to 10 per cent by constructing mobile housing. A majority of farmers in Kenya use the traditional house made of woody enclosure which exposes them to high draught, predation, and parasites. To curb this, farmers can make the Riyason mobile house that takes the shape of a …
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Marshal Kithokilo, Loitoktok farmer is growing multiple crops such as sunflower, pumpkin, okra, and pawpaw, a practice which has enabled him to control pests, diseases, and weeds organically as opposed to conventional farming which relies on the use of chemicals and fertiliser. The practice, also known as polyculture where crops are grown in the same …
By George Munene Late blight (phytopthora infestans) is the most economically important potato disease in Kenya causing yield losses ranging from 10 per cent to absolute crop failure. Studies report 92 per cent of Kenyan farmers having to deal with the disease. According to the Kenya Potato Production Guide which was compiled by a team of …
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Mint, the herb that is popularly known as a garnish for meat and alcoholic drinks, can variously be used in animal and plant pest control. The plant has for several years now been used in controlling white flies in flower farms. In practice A number of mint plants positioned in various spots around flower greenhouses, …
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A Thika-based agribusiness firm is using a sticky polythene sheet to control livestock flying pests in its zero grazing units. Real IPM has run the zero-grazing unit with the rolling trap from end to end and any flying parasite is ‘arrested’ by the glue before starving to death. It is painted yellow, a colour that …
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Sugar cane farmers in Uganda are using specially bred beetles to tame the voracious white scale pest that has robbed farmers of any harvest because of their destructive nature on sugar cane. The innovative mode of scientifically wiping out the pest was discovered and introduced among cane farmers by Dr B. Ramesh an entomologist from …
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