Timely availability of high volumes of good quality planting materials is a challenge especially for crops propagated by vegetative means such as sweetpotato [Ipomoea batatas (L.) Lam.]. Zambian growers rely on volunteer plant sprouts to generate vines. Recently the use of root sprouts has been...
Download PDF ↓Arachis sp. cultivation in Africa is largely by small holder farmers that lack the resources to counteract the negating effects of foliar disease Early Leaf Spot (ELS) caused by Cercospora arachidicola. C. arachidicola causes yield losses which on interaction with other pests and/ or diseases and...
Download PDF ↓Agriculture is Zambia’s mainstay and farmers have for long practiced monoculture crop farming in which maize is the most widely grown. Other alternative and more adverse weather tolerant food crops such as sweet potatoes, cassava, sorghum and millet have not been grown much. There is very little...
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