Pests

By George Munene Produced by the Tree Health Unit, a department of Tree Genebank at CIFOR-ICRAF Nairobi, Kenya, the Major pest and disease identification and management guide for mango, avocado, tamarillo, and grevillea guide provides free vital information to help smallholders, extension and rural advisory services identify and manage all pest and disease incidences before

Farm­ers can eas­ily con­trol aph­ids by using some or­ganic prac­tices, such as sprink­ling ash, spray­ing a neem solu­tion or plant­ing trap crops and avoid the use of pesti­cides which must be con­trolled for safety of the con­sumers. Use of or­ganic means to con­trol pests such as aph­ids do not re­strict farm­ers to ob­serve max­imum residue

Front, the 3R potato undamaged and empty rows where conventional potatoes were planted but died due to late blight disease. By George Munene  The International Potato Center (CIP) is running trials and working on providing market access to genetically engineered potato varieties with complete resistance to late blight disease in Kenya and Nigeria   Caused by

In 2017, Kenya’s fresh produce to the European Union was intercepted 29 times due to infestation by pests such as leaf miners, bollworm,s and armyworms among others with the product having exceeded minimum pesticide limits of 10 per cent maximum residue level according to the Horticultural Crops Directorate. In developing countries such as Kenya, frequent