1. 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...
  2. 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...
  3. AccessAgriculture Training Video Las moscas de la fruta inyectan sus huevos en la fruta. Una sola mosca de la fruta puede poner cientos de huevos, que se convierten en gusanos blancos que comen el interior de la fruta. Si no se toma acciones, las moscas de la fruta rápidamente crecen en número y...
  4. 27/4/2018 El gusano cogollero del maíz (Spodoptera frugiperda) es una plaga común en el hemisferio occidental que afecta muchos cultivos comerciales, principalmente al maíz. Este lepidóptero voraz (grupo de insectos que incluye mariposas y polillas) se detectó por primera vez en África Central y Occidental...
  5. AccessAgriculture Training Video Los chapulines (langostas) y caracoles pueden ser un problema serio para cualquier almácigo de hortalizas, ya que mastican los tallos tiernos de los plantines. Los gusanos también pueden causar daño, pero más en el tomate y en el repollo que en el chile o ají....
  6. 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...
  7. 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...
  8. AccessAgriculture Training Video Los nemátodos son gusanos horribles que viven en el suelo y en las raíces de distintos cultivos y malezas. Los nemátodos son más fáciles de prevenir que controlar. El secreto es: producir plantines sanos; destruir todas las fuentes de nematodos en su huerto y...
  9. 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...
  10. 29/5/2020 This article is from ECHO Asia Note # 42 On the island of Bali we have had recent challenges with the Sugarcane White Grub (Lepidiota stigma) consuming many different crops and frustrating local farmers. In Bali (and Sumatra) we call this pest ‘gayes’, in Javanese it is known as ‘urèt’. In our...