book for PDF - John Snow International Europe

Army worm, caterpillars, grubs• Avoid killing owls, bats and night-flying birds, which eatcaterpillars.• Plant low-value grains such as millet as trap crops.• Avoid burning grassland and overgrazing as this causes swarmsto hatch.• Spray with vegetable oils (away from plants) and oil (onor near crop).• Dust caterpillars and plants with lime.• Place 3 cloves of crushed garlic in a glass jar. Cover with liquidparaffin. Soak for two days. Add ten litres of water and sprayplants.BeetlesUse repellent plants, chilli and garlic spray and oil.Coddling mothPaint trunks of fruit trees with a paste of cattle manure and clay.Use it to seal wounds and cuts after pruning.Cutworm• Use lime on acid soil to repel.• Use mulch of repellent plants.• Use chickens to clear beds before planting.• Only transplant seedlings when they are large enough or toostrong for the worm to cut.• Protect individual plants with tins or sticks pushed into the soil.• Make pawpaw leaf spray from 1kg shredded pawpaw leavesshaken in 1 litre of water. Filter and dilute in 4 litres of water. Addtwo teaspoons of paraffin and a little soap. Spray the soil.70