Risorse Tagged: Pest Management

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  1. International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology - ICIPE

    icipe'smission is to help alleviate poverty, ensure food security and improve the overall health status of peoples of the tropics, by developing and extending management tools and strategies for harmful and useful arthropods, while preserving the natural resource base through research and...
    Pest Management ICIPE Entomology Insects

  2. Millipede Damage after First Rains

    27/04/2018 This article shares experienceswith milipede damage on cropsfrom network memberNoah Elhardt inSenegal and Bill Stough in Uganda. It also shares some potential control measures from a thesis by Ernst Ebregt.
    Biological Control Pest Management Pest Control Crop Protection Crop Pests Milipede

  3. Invasion of the Fall Armyworm

    27/04/2018 Fall armyworm (Spodoptera frugiperda) is a common pest in the Western Hemisphere affecting many commercial crops, most importantly maize. This voracious Lepidoptera (grouping of insects that includes butterflies and moths) was first detected in Central and Western Africa in 2016 and has quickly...
    IPM Integrated Pest Ma... Pest Management Pest Control Armyworm Crop Pests East Africa West Africa

  4. Stinging Chaya, Fruits for High Rainfall Areas and Exotic Leaf Miner Problem in Nigerian Tomatoes

    18/10/2016 Cory Thede, working on the north coast of Haiti, sent a note about a local chaya plant with a lower branch that mutated to a wild stinging type. He commented, “After I backed up against it, it gave me an itchy rash on my arm for about a week. The upper branch is regular and almost spineless.” He...
    Tomatoes Tropical Fruit Biological Control Pest Control Tropical Lowlands Integrated Pest Ma... Pest Management Chaya Fruit Tree Crops

  5. Asia Note Issue #24

    15/06/2015 Neem for Sustainable Pest Management and Environmental Conservation Tricho-Composting in Bangladesh
    Pest Management Conservation Agric... Composting Asia

  6. SAWBO - Natural Insecticide from Neem Seeds

    Naturally occurring insecticidal compounds can be extracted from neem seeds and sprayed onto crops to prevent pest insect damage. This 2 minute and 33 second animation explains how to sort neem fruits, dry them, remove their outer shells, sort the seeds, grind them, mix the powder in water,...
    JCB Natural Pesticides Pest Management Neem SAWBO Insecticide

  7. SAWBO - Biocontrol of Legume Pod Borer (Maruca vitrata)

    The Legume pod borer,Maruca vitrata, causes significant damage to cowpeas in West Africa. Cowpea (Vigna unguiculata) is considered the most important food grain legume in the dry savannas of tropical Africa, where it is grown on more than 12.8 million hectares of land. The pod borer is a serious...
    Pest Management Biocontrol SAWBO Legume Podborer

  8. Intercropping for Pest Control

    01/07/2012 “Push-pull” is an intercropping strategy that protects maize and other grain crops against maize stemborer insect larvae (Chilo partellus) and a parasitic weed called striga (Striga hermonthica). In eastern and southern Africa, these pests have caused huge losses in maize and sorghum yields....
    Push-pull Intercropping Pest Management

  9. Partial Control of Bacterial Wilt of Tomato with Chinese Chives

    01/10/2002 We recently learned of a simple technique that may reduce bacterial wilt in tomatoes. Interplanting (or pre-planting) Chinese chive with tomato results in allelopathic suppression of the organism responsible for bacterial wilt. Bacterial wilt is a disease that affects many different crops,...
    Pest Management Intercropping IPM Integrated Pest Ma...

  10. Do you know this smothering weed?

    11/07/2016 Recently, ECHO East Africa Regional Impact Center Director Erwin Kinsey and Technical Research Coordinator Bob Hargrave received a request from an ECHO network member to identify and propose control methods for a “new weed that is spreading and smothering trees and hedges.”
    Pest Management East Africa