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The Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (FMARD) has raised alarm over the consumption of cow skin, also known as ponmo, and bush meat, over suspected Anthrax disease out break, reports NaijaAgronet.A press statement available to NaijaAgronet on Monday, June 12, personally endorsed by the Permanent Secretary, FMARD, Ernest Umakhihe, the alarm has become imperative due to the outbreak of the anthrax disease in neighbouring countries in the West African subregion.
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Papaya mealybug attacks Tanzania
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He added: “It is true, however, that the climates of
coastal West Africa and coastal East Africa are similarly tropical and humid,
and these conditions clearly favour the pest.”
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The papaya mealybug, also called Paracoccus marginatus, has been detected in Tanzania’s coastal areas and in Zanzibar island; consequently igniting alarm among the region’s scientific and agriculture community, NaijaAgroNet.
Experts at the International Institute for Tropical Agriculture (IITA) in Tanzania fear that the endemic pest could put food security and the livelihoods of hundreds of thousands of farmers in jeopardy.
“The climates of coastal West Africa and coastal
East Africa are similarly tropical and humid, and these conditions clearly
favour the pest.”
James
Legg, an entomologist with the IITA in Tanzania, who is leading the pest
control initiative, toldSciDev.Net in a chat which was also monitored by
NaijaAgroNet said “It is most likely that the insects that came to
Tanzania arrived from South
Asia, since their occurrence has not been
recorded in central African countries and there is significant trade between
Asia and coastal East Africa.
He added: “It is true, however, that the climates of
coastal West Africa and coastal East Africa are similarly tropical and humid,
and these conditions clearly favour the pest.”
According to Legg, who first detected the pest in Tanzania, the insect could
spread to other parts of the East African coast, including the Kenyan coast in
the coming two years.
Another expert, Douglas Miano, a lecturer at Kenya-based University of Nairobi’s
Department of Plant Science and Crop Protection,NaijaAgroNet, suggested a way to help control the pest, which attacks the leaves,
branches and fruits of the target plant: “Inspecting plant material would
greatly help to control the spread of the pest,” Miano says.
Cyriacus Nnaji/ GEE
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