StopStriga and Gro-Plus
Working with small-scale farmers who save their own seeds, this project aims to increase productivity by using a mycoherbicide to control the parasitic weed Striga and encouraging seed priming through the adoption of Gro-Plus.
The Stopstriga programme hopes to minimise crop losses by enabling small-scale farmers to prime (soak with added nutrients) their own seeds and then treat them with a proven mycoherbicide, with a target of 48,000 households using the technology by April 2011. In September 2010, Real IPM started promoting Gro-Plus, small bags of a fertiliser which is dissolved in water and used to soak seeds (seed priming) before sowing. MORE ⇒
Working with small-scale farmers who save their own seeds, this project aims to increase productivity by using a mycoherbicide to control the parasitic weed Striga and encouraging seed priming through the adoption of Gro-Plus.
The Stopstriga programme hopes to minimise crop losses by enabling small-scale farmers to prime (soak with added nutrients) their own seeds and then treat them with a proven mycoherbicide, with a target of 48,000 households using the technology by April 2011. In September 2010, Real IPM started promoting Gro-Plus, small bags of a fertiliser which is dissolved in water and used to soak seeds (seed priming) before sowing. MORE ⇒
| Farmers from Western Kenya talk about the impact of Striga on their livelihoods. Colins Wanyama and Henry Wainwright of The Real IMP Company explain how the RIU Best Bet will work. February 2010 (5:41) |
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19 May 2011
FIPS-Africa trials stimulate farmer interest in Gro-Plus 23 March 2010
25,000 farmers buy Gro-Plus 3 March 2010
50,000 packs of Gro-Plus distributed to farmers for mass trial 2 March 2011
FIPS-Africa cross-fertilizes ideas with other RIU-backed programmes 16 February 2010
50,000 farmers to trial Gro-Plus as network of stockists grows 7 February 2011
Gro-Plus 'a-maizes' Kenyan farmer 11 January 2011
30,000 farmers primed for Gro-Plus trial 10 September 2010
Gro-Plus productivity trials extends to a further 2,500 farmers in western Kenya 5 August 2010
Early indicators show seed priming approach is helping farmers
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FIPS-Africa trials stimulate farmer interest in Gro-Plus 23 March 2010
25,000 farmers buy Gro-Plus 3 March 2010
50,000 packs of Gro-Plus distributed to farmers for mass trial 2 March 2011
FIPS-Africa cross-fertilizes ideas with other RIU-backed programmes 16 February 2010
50,000 farmers to trial Gro-Plus as network of stockists grows 7 February 2011
Gro-Plus 'a-maizes' Kenyan farmer 11 January 2011
30,000 farmers primed for Gro-Plus trial 10 September 2010
Gro-Plus productivity trials extends to a further 2,500 farmers in western Kenya 5 August 2010
Early indicators show seed priming approach is helping farmers
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» RIU highlights
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- Delivery area
Kenya, Nyanza province - Objectives
- Partners
- Work programme
Dr Henry Wainwright
wainwright@realipm.com
The Real IPM Company (K) Ltd, Kenya (Lead partner)
Phone +254 725 806086
Website www.realipm.com
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wainwright@realipm.com
The Real IPM Company (K) Ltd, Kenya (Lead partner)
Phone +254 725 806086
Website www.realipm.com
» Full RIU contact information
» info@researchintouse.com
The expected impact of StopStriga and Gro-Plus was set out in the business plans. This will be replaced over time with project reports on the achieved impact.
RIU shares emerging lessons from across the RIU portfolio.
2011
- RIUtv meets... Dr Henry Wainwright on Gro-Plus trails and commercialisation
March 2011 (01:39) - RIUtv meets... Dr Henry Wainwright.. demonstrates the application of Gro-Plus
March 2011 (01:42)
- Farmers from Western Kenya talk about the impact of Striga on their livelihoods
February 2010 (5.41) - The StopStriga two-stage process for treating saved seed
February 2010 (3:12)
- RIUtv meets... Dr Henry Wainwright on Biocontrol seed treatment to tackle striga
November 2009 (01:21) - RIU Best Bet presentation: StopStriga
November 2009 (2:23)
- Interviews with maize farmers in Western Kenya
Source www.agfax.net. March 2010 (5:54).
