Enabling quick and coordinated responses are essential in staying ahead of the fall armyworm, otherwise it could cost Africa dearly, said Dr Joseph DeVries, Vice President of Program Development and Innovation at the Alliance for Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA). Research done by the UK’s Department for International Development at…
This trailer sprayer, designed by a South African farmer, can be hitched to a quadbike and is capable of spraying 1 ha of citrus trees within 7 minutes. Fruit flies, false codling moth and black spot are on ongoing problem for citrus farmers in the Sundays River Valley in the…
The successful farmer is one that can do the right thing at the right time. But this gets complicated when you need to spray fields that are too wet to handle a tractor with a boom sprayer. For some large commercial farmers the answer is to rent an aeroplane or…
