Resources Tagged: Sawbo

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  1. SAWBO - Climate-Smart Push-Pull System for Stem Borer Management in Maize

    Growing maize is hard work and pests make it even harder. Insect pests can attack your maize crop and destroy it, affecting your family's nutrition, or costing you money. This animation will take you through the steps of protecting your field from pests like the stem borers by using a push-pull...
    Maize Stem Borer Pest Management SAWBO

  2. SAWBO - Tef (Teff) Transplanting Technology

    Teff is an important cereal crop in Ethiopia. Traditional planting approaches require high inputs and result in low yields, including postharvest loss due to the high levels of seeds used in planting. This video describes a row transplanting technique that reduces input costs and increases yield....
    Transplanting SAWBO Teff

  3. SAWBO - How to Remove the Poison from Cassava Flour

    Cassava is a staple food for over 800 million people in approximately 80 countries, mostly in sub-Saharan Africa, but also in Asia, the Pacific and South America. Cassava contains cyanogens, which protect against pests and predators by producing cyanide. So-called bitter varieties produce more...
    Cassava SAWBO Cyanide

  4. SAWBO - Solar Treating of Cowpea Seeds

    Cowpea bruchids (Callosobruchus maculatus) can cause damage to cowpea (Vigna unguiculata) seeds in storage, resulting in post-harvest losses. In the animated video we describe a solarization technique for killing cowpea bruchids before the seeds are stored. Scientific Animations Without Borders...
    Solar Drying Postharvest SAWBO Cowpea Vigna unguiculata

  5. SAWBO - Survival Gardening: Drip Irrigation - HHI

    Drip Irrigation is a technique that allows you to consistently water your entire crop. This technique is especially helpful during a drought or dry season. This technique must be combined with Raised Planting Beds. Please watch our animation on Raised Planting Beds before attempting Drip...
    Drip Irrigation Gardening SAWBO

  6. 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

  7. SAWBO - Postharvest Loss: Salt Testing for Grain Moisture Levels (3D)

    This animation explains a method to test if your grain has a low enough moisture level for you to store it. This technique utilizes salt to help determine the moisture level in your grain. Scientific Animations Without Borders (SAWBO) is a university based program. SAWBO transforms extension...
    Postharvest SALT Moisture SAWBO

  8. SAWBO - Improved Method of Shea Butter Processing

    Shea butter is an ivory colored or yellowish fat that is extracted from nuts of the shea tree (Vitellaria paradoxa), which is found in West Africa. Shea butter is used in cosmetics including moisturizer as well as foods such as chocolate. Additionally, it has been used in medicinal ointments....
    Postharvest Shea Butter SAWBO

  9. 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

  10. SAWBO - Survival Gardening: Raised Planting Beds - HHI

    Farming with raised planting beds is a great way to keep your crop safe and increase your yields. This agricultural technique reduces soil compaction and improves the quality of the soil. It protects your plants during times of excess rainfall. This animation describes how to implement this...
    Gardening Raised Beds SAWBO