Campaigning for Safe Chemical Use in Uganda
A loud booming voice on a megaphone breaks the silence in the farming village of Kaptum centre..”Akwaa! lo mite kapurto nyepo ceyec cepo nyepokaptisyet!”, (come attend a plant health rally by ministry of agriculture officials). Farmers quickly gather and listen attentively as Ministry of Agriculture, Animal Industry and Fisheries (MAAIF) officials conduct the plant health…
Plantwise programme expansion in Brazil
Plantwise is being implemented and coordinated in Brazil by EMBRAPA in collaboration with Empaer and the local government of Mato Grosso. Last year, faculty members from the Federal University of SĂŁo Carlos (UFSCar) at Lagoa do Sino campus, in Buri, SĂŁo Paulo State, expressed their interest in incorporating the plant clinics approach into their extension services in order…
Update: New Pest & Disease Records (25 May 16)
We’ve selected a few of the latest new geographic, host and species records for plant pests and diseases from CAB Abstracts. Records this fortnight include the first report of Tomato chlorosis virus infecting eggplant and scarlet eggplant in Brazil, the natural infection of cashew by Xanthomonas citri pv. mangiferaeindicae in Burkina Faso and the first…
Plant clinics key to reduce loss of crop production in Ethiopia
Excerpt reblogged from the Ethiopian Herald. A two-day national stakeholders forum on Plantwise Ethiopia was opened yesterday on the premises of the Ethiopian Agricultural Centre for Research. Plantwise National Coordinator Konjit Feleke told journalists on the occasion that there is much loss of production due to pests and crop diseases. It is in this light that Plantwise was…
Update: Plant Health News (18 May 16)
Here’s a taste of some of the latest stories about plant health, including the completion of the sequencing of the carrot genome, the threat of wheat blast in Asia and the potential use of spider venom as an effective natural pesticide. Click on the link to read more of the latest plant health news!
Plant clinic popular with Swiss public at BEA 2016
Contributed by Julien Dougoud, CABI Switzerland BEA, one of Switzerland’s biggest trade fairs, took place from 29 April to 8 May 2016 in Bern. Over 290,000 visitors attended the fair, where about 950 exhibitors were presenting their goods and services to the Swiss public. Agriculture is an important aspect of the event, and CABI was…
Update: New Pest & Disease Records (11 May 16)
We’ve selected a few of the latest new geographic, host and species records for plant pests and diseases from CAB Abstracts. Records this fortnight include the genetic divergence of tomato ringspot virus, species of the Colletotrichum acutatum complex associated with anthracnose diseases of fruit in Brazil and the first report of Teratosphaeria gauchensis causing stem…
Update: Plant Health News (04 May 16)
Here’s a taste of some of the latest stories about plant health, including whiteflies affecting melon in Honduras, a new irrigation project in Shire Valley, Malawi and rain and Citrus Greening affecting lime in Mexico. Click on the link to read more of the latest plant health news!
Plantwise Brazilian team participates at EMBRAPA’s “6th Field Day on Integrated Systems for Agricultural Production”
Dr Yelitza Colmenarez and JosĂ© GĂłmez represented the Plantwise programme in a field day organized by the Empresa Brasileira de Pesquisa Agropecuária (EMBRAPA: Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation). EMBRAPA is an affiliated institution to the Ministry of Agriculture, devoted to the advancement of Brazilian agriculture through technology. The event was hosted by EMBRAPA’s agro-silviculture unit in Sinop,…