Nano-enabled pesticides may be efficient but could be hazardous to the surrounding environment beyond target crop pests.
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Nano-enabled pesticides could pose huge risks and they aren’t being regulated effectively enough yet.
Sorghum.
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Known as ting or amazimba, indigenous sorghum is resilient and rich in cultural and health benefits – yet crops are declining.
Potatoes grown in the Kibirichia area of Mount Kenya.
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Potato productivity in Kenya is declining, this is partly due to potato cyst nematodes - a microscopic type of roundworm that feeds on potato roots.
A sample of biochar
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Unused biomass residues from maize, sorghum, rice, millet and groundnut in Uganda show to offer unique opportunities for circular production and soil amendment of biochar.
University of Sydney scientists have found a resistance to the fungal disease stem rust Ug99, which has been harming international…