Resources Tagged: Ipm

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  1. Promoting weaver ants in your orchard - video

    Access Agriculture Training Video Weaver ants help to protect your fruit and nuts from fruit flies and many other pests. If you don’t have weaver ants in your orchard yet, collect all the nests from an ant colony and transfer them to one of your fruit trees. Help the ants to spread to more trees...
    IPM Integrated Pest Ma... Fruit Fly AccessAgriculture

  2. Storing cowpea seed - video

    Access Agriculture Training Video Intercropping or rotating cereal crops with legume crops are two of the strategies of integrated striga and soil fertility management. But keeping quality legume seed has two major challenges. First, the seed easily loses its ability to germinate. And second, we...
    Seed Storage Cowpea Intercropping IPM Striga AccessAgriculture West Africa

  3. Integrated approach against fruit flies - video

    Access Agriculture Training Video Fruit flies inject their eggs in fruit. A single fruit fly can lay hundreds of eggs, which turn into white worms that eat the inside of fruit. If no action is taken, fruit flies quickly increase in numbers and can destroy your entire crop. Always combine...
    IPM Fruit Fly Integrated Pest Ma... AccessAgriculture

  4. Invasion of the Fall Armyworm

    2018-04-27 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

  5. How to Identify and Scout for Fall Armyworm

    The Fall Armyworm is an insect that can damage your maize plants or even cause you to lose your whole maize crop. The best way to protect your maize crop is to scout early and treat early. In this animation, we will explain how to scout for the fall armyworm, so you can take action to protect...
    SAWBO Maize Armyworm IPM Integrated Pest Ma...

  6. Fall Armyworm Tech Prize

    Fall armyworm (FAW) poses a serious threat to food security in sub-Saharan Africa. Originally from the Americas, FAW outbreaks first occurred in West Africa in early 2016 and are now on the precipice of devastating food supplies across the continent, exacerbating global poverty and hunger. FAW...
    Armyworm IPM Integrated Pest Ma...

  7. Integrated Pest Management in Protected Structures I: Basic Principles and Scouting

    The fundamentals of managing pests in protected structures are very similar in many respects to managing pests in field crops. The grower must still develop a management plan, assembling pertinent information for identifying, monitoring and controlling specific pests before planting. Integration...
    IPM Integrated Pest Ma... Protected Ag

  8. African Insect Science for Food and Health

    icipeis a tropical organisation with a tropical agenda. But why study insects? Because in the tropics, insects are a fact of life to be reckoned with. Insects pose a great risk to food production, often causing the loss of entire crops and destroying about half of all harvested food in storage....
    Entomology IPM Pest Control Pest Management Insects Striga Armyworm East Africa West Africa