Bean pests & soil diseases
Dec 09, 2019
2 minutes
BILL KERR
One pest that every bean farmer knows is the African bollworm. This tends to appear sporadically, rather than building up its population gradually.
When climatic conditions are favourable, the night-flying moths emerge and start laying eggs. On hatching, the larvae initially feed on the young leaves, then graduate to the pods, where
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