Common Pests and Diseases in Rice – part 2
Chapter 1, part 2: Diseases Category : Bacterial Rice Bacterial blight Xanthomonas oryzae pv. oryzae Symptoms Water-soaked stripes on leaf blades; yellow or white stripes on…
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Farmers fight back: Making animal feed from a locust plague
The Sowetan Live recently reported that Farmers in Nigeria are making the best out of a terrible situation by turning the locusts into food for…
Farm Fresh
What happens when five young farmers, pupils from Kabulonga Girls Secondary School of Lusaka, are all given a plot to farm side-by-side throughout a growing…
Moringa Leaves – 16 Health Benefits That You Should Know
Moringa tree is also known as the ‘miracle tree’ and there is a good reason why. The leaves, fruit, sap, oil, roots, bark, seeds, pod…
Common Pests and Diseases in Rice – part 1
Chapter 1: Diseases Category : Bacterial Bacterial leaf streak Xanthomonas oryzae Symptoms The disease manifests as small, water-soaked streaks between leaf veins which are initially dark…
Fertiliser requirements for optimal maize production
Plants, like any living thing need food and water. For any crop including maize to produce optimally, we must ensure that the necessary moisture and…
6 Ways to grow more maize!
Increasing maize yield Every farmer would like produce the biggest crop possible. There are a large number of agronomic factors that can influence this, many…
GREEN BEAN
PRODUCTION GUIDELINE GREEN BEAN INTRODUCTIONGreen beans are dicotyledonous plants, and members of the family, Fabaceae, forming part of the species Phaseolus vulgaris. The green bean…
Types of fertilizers
What is fertilizer? Plants build their bodies with “blocks” — chemical substances collected from the environment, like carbon from the air, and water and minerals…
Fertilizer point application rate calculator by UFCL
Description: United Fertilizers Company Limited launched the tool to ease the procedure of calculating the amount of required fertilizer point applications with commonly available bottle lids.…
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