UNDERSTANDING AND MANAGING WHITEFLIES AND VIRAL DISEASES IN CASSAVA IN MALAWI

Training manual designed with goal to improve cassava production and enhance farmers’ food security and incomes in Malawi through proper management of mosaic and brown streak diseases and whiteflies in the crop.

The objective this manual is to equip Agricultural Field Officers with profound knowledge about the problem of CMD, CBSD and whiteflies in cassava and how to manage it so that they can, in turn, ably assist farmers in their localities to understand and manage the same.

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Additional Info

Field Value
Crop Cassava
Pest Cassava brown streak virus
Countries covered Malawi
Area covered (GeoJson coordinates, use https://geojson.io to create)
Dataset type
Factsheet format
Language English
Date created 2019-12-01
Frequency of update
Last updated 2019-12-01
Author D. L. KACHIGAMBA, M.M. SOKO, M. CHIIPANTHENGA, A. MTONGA, DARS
Author Email D. L. KACHIGAMBA, M.M. SOKO, M. CHIIPANTHENGA, A. MTONGA, DARS
Maintainer DAES
Maintainer Email DAES