Resources Tagged: Striga

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  1. Managing striga weed and other parasitic weeds

    2018-08-08 Session: African Witchweeds and Their Relatives—Biology, Sanitation, and Control Biographical Information: Lytton John Musselman is Mary Payne Hogan Distinguished Professor of Botany at Old Dominion University and has researched Striga as a Fulbright Professor at the University of Khartoum; as a...
    Striga East Africa

  2. 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

  3. Push-Pull Farming System Controls Fall Armyworm: Lessons from Africa

    Abstract, 2018, Outlooks on Pest Management Fall armyworm (FAW)Spodoptera frugiperdainvaded Africa, with the first detections being reported in Central and Western Africa in early 2016, and now affects at least 40 countries in Africa, causing up to total crop loss amounting to over $6.2 billion...
    Armyworm Striga

  4. Managing striga weed and other parasitic weeds

    Session:African Witchweeds and Their Relatives—Biology, Sanitation, and Control Biographical Information:Lytton John Musselman is Mary Payne Hogan Distinguished Professor of Botany at Old Dominion University and has researched Striga as a Fulbright Professor at the University of Khartoum; as a...
    Striga East Africa

  5. CTA Practical Guide Series

    2007-01-01 This Series contains 14fold-out leaflets,practical for use in the field and easy to read. Covering multiple subjects, it gives some background to the subject, outlines processes and provides tips, tables and explanatory line drawings. 1. Rearing Dairy Goats 2. How To Control Striga And Stemborer...
    Mango Fruit Fly Beekeeping Cookery-Tomatoes Banana Flour Tree Nursery Fish Farming Canning and Preser... Compost Cassava flour Sweet Potato Products Chickens Rainwater Harvesting Striga dairy goats

  6. Parasitic Plants in African Agriculture

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    2019-03-21 This Technical Note provides an overview of parasitic plants of agricultural significance in Africa. Parasitic weeds cause drought stress and stunted crops. Affected plants include cereal grains (e.g., sorghum [Sorghum bicolor] and maize [Zea mays]) and grain legumes (e.g., cowpea [Vigna...
    Push-pull Striga Weeds Parasitic Plants Weed Control