By extensionists for farmers: 16 fact sheets, Uganda and Kenya

This paper presents a series of fact sheets written by extension workers, farmers and researchers who attended training courses run by the Global Plant Clinic in July 2006. Using cases from Uganda and Kenya, each fact sheet offers advice to farmers to solve a specific problem, based on the author’s personal experiences of working with farmers and local agriculture. 

The fact sheets discuss solutions to the following problems:

For Uganda:

• banana nematode
• bintubizibu 
• tomato wilt or kiwotoka
• potato wilt 
• correct planting of carrots 
• pigeon pea storage pests 
• maize weevil in storage 
• good groundnut seed 
• cultural control of cowpea aphids 
• cultural control of banana weevil 
• striga weed in sorghum 
• banana bacterial wilt 
• banana slim and kiwotoka

For Kenya:

• potato blight
• Newcastle disease in chickens
• Osama destroys maize
• Napier stunting disease