Project to encourage inter-cropping as a strategy to control pests & parasites in cereal crops

With the ‘maize stem borer’ pest and ‘striga weed’ parasite a barrier to production levels in the Nabigasa region of Uganda, one of this year’s Marshal Papworth graduates – Agnes – is developing a ‘push-pull’ technology project to help smallholder farmers control those two challenges to maize production, whilst also providing a second income stream. […]