A popular TV program aired on Citizen television in Kenya, known as Shamba Shape Up, is helping farmers adopt biocontrol agents against fall armyworm. In an integrated pest management project led by Feed the Future Innovation Lab for... Read full article

The use of biochar in farming is a revolutionary pollution-free solution currently adopted by farmersas one of the conservation agriculture practicesadvocated by USAID’s Current and Emerging Threats to Crops Innovation Lab (CETC IL). Much research... Read full article

Dream Team Agro Consultancy Limited is engaging in mass production of parasitoids through its parasitoid rearing facility at Alupe University in collaboration with the International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology (ICIPE). This initiative aims to help farmers produce more... Read full article

Last week, Zamorano University hosted a closing workshop at the Los Pinos hotel in La esperanza to conclude the farmer field school program with potato growers in Honduras. In a project funded by... Read full article

Burkina Faso like many Sahelian countries is experiencing the worst drought and famine in a decade. To top it off, destructive pests on the country’s important food crops leave Burkinabe households vulnerable to food insecurity. Pests... Read full article

Mrs. Annette Orinyo from Alupe in Busia County has been farming for at least 5 years. In her farming experience, she grows maize, cassava, groundnuts, and vegetables and keeps cows to feed her family of five. Farming is especially difficult in Kenya, where plant insect pests,... Read full article

Kenyan farmers have acknowledged how organic fertilizer under the initiative of USAID's Current and Emerging Threats to Crops Innovation Lab (CETC IL) came in handy for them after inorganic fertilizer prices skyrocketed during... Read full article

Last week a group of seventeen rust pathologist from KALRO and Dream Team Agro Consultancy Limited took part in a one-week workshop to equip them on the use of a real-time plant diseases diagnostics surveillance for wheat rust diseases. Dr. Diane Saunders, a group leader at John... Read full article

The agricultural community in Nepal will pride itself on the services of 15 lead farmers who recently completed their training on the PlantVillage Nuru application navigation. The main objective of the training, which was organized under the initiative... Read full article

Fall armyworm (FAW) scientifically known as Spodoptera frugiperdais a destructive insect pest of maize capable of causing significant yield losses. The FAW larvae attacks maize plant at alldevelopmental stages. Since 2016 when it first reached Africa, the pest has... Read full article

The Current and Emerging Threats to Crops Innovation Lab (CETC IL) in Honduras, promoted by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), the Pennsylvania State University and Zamorano, is promoting the use of PlantVillage Nuruapplication with potato... Read full article

Late blight diseases –caused by phytophthora infestans, remains one of the most destructive disease to potato farmers, costing them an estimated USD 3-10 billion per year globally. In Kenya where smallholder farmers grow potato, the disease can destroy as much as 70%... Read full article

The Current and Emerging Threats to Crops Innovation Lab (CETC-IL) project in Honduras is promoted by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), Pennsylvania State University (USA), and Zamorano University (Honduras).... Read full article

In terms of human consumption, wheat ranks the third most important cereal grain crop in Nepal. But the low productivity of the crop has been a constant issue in wheat production areas due to several factors, with problem of insect pests and diseases as themajor one. In Nepal,... Read full article

Farmers have applauded theFeed the Future Innovation Lab for Current and Emerging Threats to Crops project, whose first phase has already been rolled out in 10 counties in Kenya. Dream Team AgroConsultancy Limited which is one of the sub... Read full article

A new USAID Feed the Future Innovation Lab housed at Penn State will help smallholder farmers around the world cope with pests in a climate-changed world UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Reducing the negative... Read full article