PlantwisePlus Blog

As 2024 comes to a close, we’ve tallied the numbers to reveal the most read blogs on the PlantwisePlus Blog this year—plus a few firm favourites! Our most read blogs cover crop pest guides, digital tools, and biocontrols for invasive species, highlighting the impactful work we do with smallholder farmers, policymakers, and communities.

Did any of your favourites make the most-read list this year?

Number 1

By Lizzie King

Common Papaya Disorders: A Comprehensive Guide

Number 2

By Donna Hutchinson

Watch out for these five cabbage pests

Number 3

By Laura Hollis

What is Integrated Crop Management?

Number 4

By Rolanda McGuire

Types of biological control: augmentative, conservation and classical

Number 5

By Belinda Luke, Léna Durocher-Granger, Muyambango Liywalii

Successful on-farm trials using Metarhizium rileyi in Zambia

Number 6

By Laura Hollis

Empowering women farmers with digital tools in India

Number 7

By Joe Hooper

How a tiny wasp can save the livelihoods of papaya farmers

Number 8

By Lucinda Charles, Manju Thakur, MaryLucy Oronje

India Update: Pest Risk Analysis workshop

Number 9

By Rachel Winks

Parasitic wasps play pivotal role in Kenya’s papaya mealybug control

Number 10

By Wayne Coles

CABI-led PlantwisePlus training to help increase livelihoods and greater food security in Papua New Guinea

Firm favourites

Most read articles from the archives that blog readers love:

The continuing struggle for onion farmers in the Philippines By Donna Hutchinson

Maize Lethal Necrosis Disease – the invasive threatening maize By Manju Thakur

4 pests and diseases of maize By Laura Hollis

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