Kenya: Farmers use bioherbicide to fight crop-killing 'witchweed' http://newsfeed.facilit8.network/THj2f8 #Kenya #Agriculture #Bioherbicide #Witchweed #Striga

The #witchweed #Striga hermonthica causes damage to #maize of around US$ 9 billion per year in Africa and is often resistant to #herbicides - review in the journal 'Pest Management Science' of the challenges of commercializing a fungal #biocontrol agent (Fusarium oxysporum f.sp. strigae) against witchweeds in Africa by Claire S. Baker and others - https://doi.org/10.1002/ps.7761