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KALRO establishes facility to control rust disease causing 80% losses

The Kenya Agricultural and Livestock Research Organisation (KALRO) in Njoro has established a diagnostics hub that enables local researchers to identify yellow rust strains– diseases that reduce grain yields by 30 – 80 per cent– within two days of collecting samples. This process previously took three to 12 months and was reliant on sending samples …

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Grafting purple and yellow passion fruit controls deadly wilting disease

Farmers can control the lethal fusarium wilt disease with a 100 per cent deadly rate by grafting purple and yellow passion plants to obtain a hybrid. The disease, which is caused by a fungus, attacks stems and leaves and causes death of the entire plant within four to 14 days. In Kenya, the disease has led to …

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