Scientists say the ants have been proven effective for fruit fly control and they can be used for controlling pests in most perennial crops except coffee. If the weaver is taken on in Uganda, it will increase the country's mango exports, reduce on the use of expensive and inaccessible pesticides, thus raising revenue. He said fruit flies and the fact that most small-scale farmers cannot afford pesticides led to the United States to ban mango exports from West Africa. A tropical weaver ant,...

Giving that thirsty lawn a mere sip of water, however, may not be the best way to take care of your lawn. We haven t had a good downpour in a while, and that has transformed what had been a pretty good rain season into a lousy one, and now instead of soft, lush grass, many lawns feel like straw and look worse. But if you ve driven around town at all this past week, you ve no doubt noticed the brown reminders of what s not going so well. A brown lawn, by the way, isn t necessarily anything...

He says the pilots need to know how to fix the planes, understand pesticides and the farming industry. David Eby, owner of Agriflite Services in Wakarusa, says the pilots undergo extensive training and have to log at least 500 hours in the crop duster before they begin actual work. It's specialized flying that you have to have common sense, you have to have a feeling of the airplane that you can handle it in what ever situation. When you see a crop duster in the air, you can guarantee the...

Because of the demand for the fungicide, a half dozen planes, some from out of state, will be applying it for the next month or so as the corn starts to tassel. They re just crop dusters applying a fungicide that will keep crops healthier and increase farmers yields. They re just crop dusters applying a fungicide that will keep crops healthier and increase farmers yields. Traylor said Tuesday that farmers couldn t justify the expense of the fungicide in the past, but higher crop values now...

Ask Gopalaiah, an astrologer by profession, what drove him for the experiment and he says, Scores of farmers who depend solely on coconut farming have seen the worst when coconut trees were infested with insects and worms. The tank with pesticides is also fitted with a powerful spraying machine and pipes that reaches the pesticide to all the plants in the farm. He then planted 3,000 pomegranate saplings in about 12 acres of land and got solar-energy enabled fencing done for the protection...