Pests

Growing chilli walls reduces devastating monkey attacks on farms while providing farmers with an additional source of income. In trials...

Kenya has been flagged as the entry point for the Apple Snail pest which could halve wet-rice production in East...

Over 25,900 cereal farmers are seeing an up to 95 per cent drop in cases of Striga/ witchweed thanks to...

Coffee farmers, who face the removal this year of the main pesticide used to kill berry borers in coffee, are...

Cutting his rice production by about 10 per cent for the past four years, Francis Migwi, a Mwea rice farmer,...

Farmers in Tigoni have broken out of continuous pesticide use to curb 80 per cent clubroot yield losses with a...

Maize farmers are using wasps to eradicate Fall Armyworms at one-fifth of the cost they previously spent on chemical pesticides....

A solar-powered moving scarecrow that detects bird movements is helping rice farmers reclaim thousands in previously lost incomes. African farmers...

Farmers in Western Kenya looking to diversify from sugarcane face attacks from rats from nearby sugarcane plantations wiping out their...

Organic farmers in Kenya have turned to the neem tree as a cure-all thanks to its powers as a pesticide,...