The horticultural sector is a key contributor to Kenya’s gross domestic product through the export of fresh-cut flowers, fruits and vegetables various niche markets. It employs over 350,000 people, while about six million depend on it. However, constrained by strict technical phytosanitary quality requirements set concerns include presence pests microbial contaminants, chemical residues constit...

Agriculture sector is evolving with the advent of the information and communication technology. Efforts are being made to enhance the productivity and reduce losses by using the state of the art technology and equipment. As most of the farmers are unaware of the technology and latest practices, many expert systems have been developed in the world to facilitate the farmers. However, these expert...

The inappropriate use of pesticides has created side effects such as resistance to pesticides, outbreak of new or secondary pests, environmental toxicity, and human health issues. The aim of this study was to investigate which factors influence green house workers’ attitudes to pesticide use in a case study of 50 greenhouse workers in Hashtgerd city, Iran. Using Bayesian confirmatory factor ana...

We conducted a cross-sectional study to assess cattle owners' awareness, perceptions, and attitudes toward zoonoses, with particular emphasis regarding anthrax. Data on awareness of zoonoses, clinical signs of anthrax in animals and human, its routes of transmission and methods of prevention, the families' consumption habits of anthrax-infected carcasses, and other family activities that increa...

Sparrows are a type of pest that is very detrimental to rice farmers, even though these bird pests small in size but large numbers, causing farmers be overwhelmed protecting from pests. Efforts made by using scarecrows work less effectively, it necessary have scarecrow robot can effectively utilizing solar heat as an energy supply. The field will placed the middle has issued grain with 20mx20m ...

Pesticides are a significant component of the modern agricultural technology that has been widely adopted across the globe to control pests, diseases, weeds and other plant pathogens, in an effort to reduce or eliminate yield losses and maintain high product quality. Although pesticides are said to be toxic and exposes farmers to risk due to the hazardous effects of these chemicals, pesticide u...

There is increasing awareness all over the world of the economic significance of the vertebrate pests specially rodents. Their superiority in adopting themselves to almost all habitats and changing environmental conditions has made them man’s most dreaded enemy. Control of rodents is therefore of utmost importance. Rodenticides play a significant role in combating rodent pests. Non-palatability...

Asurvey study was conducted to assess the knowledge/awareness level in IPM technology among farmers. Four villages were randomly selected from Sargodha district for data collection. Thirteen farmers from each village were selected randomly and sample size was 52 respondents. More than 92% of respondents have no advisory services either from public or private sector. The findings imply that resp...