Using plants with pesticidal properties to control insects during on-farm grain storage
Market liberalisation in Africa has resulted in more commodities being stored in small quantities in on-farm facilities. This has resulted in increased post-harvest losses, especially by storage pest insects of grain and legumes. The use of synthetic pesticides in food stores at the farm level can be considered costly by resource-poor farmers. In northern Ghana locally available plants are cheap and effective alternatives, provided problems associated with their sustainable use are addressed.
Author: UK Department For International Development (DFID)
Organization: The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
Year: 2020
Country/ies: Ghana
Geographical coverage: Africa
Type: Practices
Full text available at: https://teca.apps.fao.org/en/technologies/4506/
Content language: English