COMMON PESTS AND THEIR CONTROL dustrial Area, Opposite A.P.G Milling, Lusaka, Zambia, Email: info@uci.co.zm Submersible Pump sets LE & BOOSTER PUMPS
T. RELIABLE are allowed to destroy a crop before harvesting, then hunger would be looming around the farm as well as the nation.
A crop is not safe from pests even from when it has been harvested. Grain weevils, mice, and rats are some of the pests that damage crops that has been stored.
It is therefore, important to control pests in store rooms as well as in the fields.
Electric Insects cause direct damage by eating leaves or sucking the Motors juices, they also spread disease amongst the plants as they HE word pest refers to move from one diseased plant any destructive insect to another. It is usually the larva or other animal that and caterpillar stage that attacks plants, crops does most damage. The larva or livestock. eats a lot of food during its metamorphosis Our farmers do their best to stage. 77 744 325 . 0976 023 126 produce the food the nation Birds are useful in controlling needs yet, thousands of kwachas insects and ticks that worth of agricultural produce cause a lot of damage to crops which our farmer produces as well as to livestock hide. is spoiled by the pests every year.
In the animal world, animals can be pests these include insects, birds, mammals and soil organisms. Pests may damage crops, livestock or farm buildings. It is therefore, important for the farmer(s) to know which c2ro0ps1an8d pests are likely to attack their
animals. In this regard they must also know how to control these pests.
Prevention is better than a cure. A farmer who tries to prevent a pest from beginning its damage to occur before taking any action. What are pesticides? These and take their food from it. Liverflukes tsetse flies are some of the pests important that disease is prevented. CASTLE SHOPPING CENTRE are chemicals that are used to and roundworms are that spread diseases amongst If disease does occur it control pests are called pesticides parasites that occur in cattle livestock and humans. must be recognized and cured and are many different and pigs. Infection is reduced Control is by preventing the quickly. kinds of these pesticides and if the animals are kept in clean insects from breeding, by clearing are divided into groups according conditions. waste ground and damp areas Below are rules for using to the pests they are to control Human beings can suffer where they like laying eggs. insecticides and all other pesticides:
SHOP FOR RENT e.g. insecticide – control from these parasites if they Rubbish should be burnt or - insects, fungicides – control Some kind of pests, attack eat infected meat that has not buried and food and water pots fungi, nematocides – control farm livestock and cause weakness been cooked well enough to kill should be covered. 1) Always read the instructions soil nematodes e.g. eelworms, or bad quality produce. the parasites. Bilharzia organism Many diseases are spread for its use, and herbicides – control weeds. Human beings also get attacked is another parasite which by pests. The tsetse fly already only use the correct insecticide Crops in agriculture play by pests and cause poor affects both animals and humans. mentioned above, for example, for the pest you
1250Sq metres prime shop for rent in a very important role in that health. It enters the body from carries trypanosomiasis to want to control. from crops animal feeds are The method of control depends infected water, so great care animals, and aphids can carry manufactured. on how and where the should be taken to keep water fungal spores to plants. However, 2) Mix them in the correct
a secure clean shopping complex along Maize is one of the major pest attacks, but cleanliness is supplies clean and not let infected not all diseases are spread in proportions. grain crop that is used to feed always important. Animals that waste products from animals this way. Some are spread from farm livestock as well as humans are clean and well fed are more or people spoil the water. an infected animal to a healthy and so are groundnuts healthy, than dirty animals kept Ticks are found on cattle, where animal or from one plant to the
Kafue Road. and vegetables. in poor conditions where pests they cling to the skin and suck plant next to it.
These if pests are not controlled and diseases can live in dirt. blood. They can be prevented One sick animal can infect 4) Spray with the wind, they will reduce the harvest In livestock many of the pests if the herd is dipped or sprayed a whole herd and one area of not against it, and always to half of what is expected are parasites. This means that with suitable pesticide. infected plants can spread wash out spraying ECURE 0977 400460 to be harvested. If such insects they live on or inside an animal Mosquitoes, house flies and and ruin a whole crop, so it is apparatus after use.
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3) Do not use containers for other purposes. 5) Keep all insecticide in a locked room or cupboard.
6) Wash your hands at three times after using insecticides.
7) Do not use the insecticide if you have a cut on the hands.
8) Make sure that insecticides do not come into contact with livestock or food or drinking water.
9) It is very important that records are kept of every time an insecticide is used.
Crows which are found in groups do a lot of damage by eating crops in the fields. these birds can eat maize, millet, sorghum and other crops. They also dig and eat groundnuts. Crow are not so easy to control by pesticides. But if one or two are shot and then hung in the field the rest will usually be scared away.
Pesticides are useful in reducing damage and protection of stored and growing plants. But it should be remembered that pesticides are poisons so they must be used with care. Some pesticides are more dangerous than others.
Those that decompose easily are safer than those which do not decompose quickly. Those
PON which do not decompose easily can remain in the soil, or plant tissues or in the tissues of the animal eating such crops. For this reason, a safety period is of at least two weeks or more depending on the brand of the chemical.
Another danger of pesticides is that they may cause the death of a bird or animal unintentionally.
Birds which eat insects which have been sprayed with an insecticide sometimes die
PRIVATE C as a result of this. this actually affects beneficial birds which help to control insects and ticks that are a problem to livestock. UNIVERSIT
Pesticides that are not used with proper care would pollute the water channels hence, birds, wild animals and fish in these water bodies are killed
Promoting Standa because of these chemicals that find their way in the waters. Pesticides and insecticides
ARE YO are and must be used with the uttermost care for the sake of farm livestock as well as for humans who use them. Farms are COLLEGE O more prone to chemical usage. Here you have animals, crops and the soil itself which is at the core center of production.