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Leaf Vegetables Advice me how to control Pests on My vegetable farm

Alfred Opiyo

Certified Expert
I am practising organic farming, what do you use to kill the pests that eat the vegetable leaves?
For organic farming it's advised to use integrated pest management (IPM) which is a combination of cultural, physical, mechanical, biological and chemical methods to combat insects pests where these chemicals are highly recommended to be biopesticides and/or botanically made pesticides. These mechanism include crop rotation to break life cycle of a particular pest which affect only a given crop, mechanically by mowing, ploughing or destruction of host crop, physically by doing frequent scouting and kill/destroy pests, their eggs ,larval or pupal stage. Biopesticides , botanical pesticides like:-
  • Pygar-made from pyrethrin +garlic
  • Neemroc from Neem plant extract
  • Pyerine- control of white flies and aphids
  • Neemraj and Nimbecidine(aphids, thrips, white flies, leaf miner, beetles etc)
  • Bio power- control aphids- Osho chemical
  • Yellow traps in white flies control
  • Biolep -for African bollworm
.....and the list is endless
 

julielabatts

New member
For organic farming it's advised to use integrated pest management (IPM) which is a combination of cultural, physical, mechanical, biological and chemical methods to combat insects pests where these chemicals are highly recommended to be biopesticides and/or botanically made pesticides. These mechanism include crop rotation to break life cycle of a particular pest which affect only a given crop, mechanically by mowing, ploughing or destruction of host crop, physically by doing frequent scouting and kill/destroy pests, their eggs ,larval or pupal stage. Biopesticides , botanical pesticides like:-
  • Pygar-made from pyrethrin +garlic
  • Neemroc from Neem plant extract
  • Pyerine- control of white flies and aphids
  • Neemraj and Nimbecidine(aphids, thrips, white flies, leaf miner, beetles etc)
  • Bio power- control aphids- Osho chemical
  • Yellow traps in white flies control
  • Biolep -for African bollworm
.....and the list is endless
Thank you Alfred for the info..where ca i get these botanical pesticides or they available in vet shops?
 
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