Internal Parasites in Goats: Signs, Treatment, and How to Stay Ahead of Them Ask any experienced goat farmer in Nigeria what kills more goats than any disease, any predator, or any management mistake and the answer you will hear most consistently is worms. Not dramatic sudden death. Not a visible outbreak that sends you running … Read more
There is a particular kind of frustration that comes with termite damage on a farm. You plant, you weed, you fertilise, and then one morning you walk your field and find healthy-looking plants that pull straight out of the ground with no resistance at all. The roots are gone. Eaten from below while the plant … Read more
If you own cattle in Nigeria, Ghana, Kenya, or South Africa, there is a good chance ticks are on your animals right now. Not maybe. Not possibly. Right now, as you read this, ticks are feeding on your cattle, laying eggs in your grazing land, and setting up the next generation of infestation that will … Read more
Of all the pests that attack coffee in Kenya, the coffee berry borer is the one that most resembles a thief. It does not announce itself with visible feeding on leaves or stems. It does not cause the kind of dramatic wilting or discolouration that sends farmers running to the agro-dealer. It enters a coffee … Read more
Every yam farmer knows the feeling of stacking a good harvest into the barn after months of hard work, only to return weeks later and find tubers that have gone soft, smell wrong, or are riddled with holes from insects that moved in quietly while no one was watching. Yam storage loss is one of … Read more
A poultry farmer in Enugu noticed her layers dropping egg production gradually over three weeks. She assumed it was a feed issue and switched to a more expensive feed. Production continued dropping. She treated for Newcastle disease. Still no improvement. It was only when she inspected her birds closely at night with a torch that … Read more
You will not see rice stem borer destroy your crop all at once. That is what makes it so dangerous. While fall armyworm announces itself with visible feeding damage across entire fields within days, rice stem borer works quietly from inside the stem. By the time the damage becomes obvious from a distance, the larva … Read more