Nigeria: Farmers adopt recommended practices to manage late blight in Irish potato
The first rains signal the beginning of another planting season. Wearing a brown wrapper and yellow blouse, Mary Bwakat is […]
Reviving banana production to boost incomes in western Kenya
Bananas are one of the most important crops in East and Central Africa, both as a staple food and as […]
Malawi: Disease forces farmers to uproot banana plants
To Agnes Dzenje, banana is more than just a fruit. It has been supporting her since childhood. But things have […]
Uganda: Rising temperatures increase pest and disease problems for coffee farmers (IPS)
Coffee has been part of Abudu Zikusoka’s life for as long as he can remember. As a child in the […]
Plantwise Knowledge Bank
This week’s Farmer stories and Spotlight discuss pests and diseases that are affecting staple crops such as maize and cash crops like […]
Rwanda: Farmers in need get free disease-resistant cassava (The New Times)
Jean Paul Sebarera had given up on growing cassava after brown streak disease, known locally as kabore, devastated plantations in […]
Preventing and managing cassava diseases
This week, we feature two stories about disease-resistant varieties of cassava. Researchers are developing cassava varieties that produce higher yields, […]
Our matoke will survive: Ugandan farmers fight banana bacterial wilt
Like our Farmer story from DRC, our Script of the week focuses on managing banana bacterial wilt. This script captures […]
DRC: How banana farmers are beating bacterial wilt
This morning, like many others, Joséphine Ndamubuya only has eyes for her banana trees. Mrs. Ndamubuya has a one-hectare banana […]
Ugandan farmers fight cassava mosaic disease with clean planting materials
Two of this week’s Farmer stories highlight the advantages—and the challenges—of using improved seeds. Some improved seeds were specifically bred […]