"SEC | S20W3:"Identification and Elimination of Crop Pests"

A pest can simply be seen as a living thing, usually plant an animal or even a micro organism that has a cause problem in human lives sometimes in their farm land.
Pest can be an unwanted plant known as weeds, nematode, insects, fungi, birds, rodent, deer, spider, rabbits, etc.
All these mentioned above destroy crops and make them not produce well.

When you visited the crop field, what pests did you observe there? How did you identify that it was a pest?

I am a good farmer, and I normally check up on my famr once in a while to make sure that it's free from pests.
Unfortunately, I became sick and was unable to check on my farm for more than two weeks, after receiving treatment and recovering from the illness I decided to check on my farm to know wether it's free from pests.

	Pests really dealt with this vegetables

When i got there, I noticed that my crops had been destroyed by different pets, and some of them started dying because of the torment and damage that the pests had inflicted on them.
My vegetables, cucumber, and watermelons were eating up by insects, my maize was eaten up by birds, my cassava was destroyed by a bush rabbit, and my farm entirely were filled up with grasses.

	This banana 🍌 was tormented by rodent

I am a farmer. I know how to discover when pests eat up my crops, some of my cassava started dying, and I was really hurt because I just planted it.
My maize that I invested a lot of money to cultivate was eaten up by the birds of the air, and even some were destroyed by humans through stealing.
It is very easy to know that your plant have been affected by pests because you will see a negative outcome, and they will be delayed in production because the pests have tempered with it.

Which pesticides do you think are suitable for controlling the pests you observed in the field? Please express your own opinion. (Note: For your convenience, the names of the pesticide groups are mentioned above.)

	The pesticide i used in chasing away insects

For my watermelons and cucumber farm, I think a sniper is a brand used in chasing insects from crops and also makes it produce well.
I also bought a lock chemical in a close by market known as best and mixed with water, and then I sprayed in the farm, and the insects all ran away. My crops were free from pests.

	About to apply uproot on my cassava farm

For the weeds that I observed in my farm, a pesticide known as uproot is simply the best in killing and drying up the grasses from my farm.
Although a rubber of this chemical is quite expensive but you have to purchase it because it's simply the best in terms of killing grasses from your farm and making the crops grow well.

^{Applying uproot on my farm in order to kill the weeds there}

I have been using this chemical for a very long time, and it's been working well for me. The grasses in my farm have delayed my cassava from producing well because the grasses are competing with them.
Once I notice this particular, I will just mix my uproot with water inside my spraying machine and them use it on my farm. It will kill all the grasses in no distance time.

Describe the method of trapping insects by creating a pest trap using various natural materials (such as containers and adhesive substances).

Smile I have seen many people creating a local instrument in trapping insects from their farm.
A woman from my area prepared a locel trap by herself that catches insects in her farm, it is made up with wood and them massive gum so that whenever the insects come to her farm it will hold them captives.

Discuss in detail which crops you think the use of bio-chemicals is beneficial and cost-effective.

For me I believe cassava is the crop when we use biochemical on it it wilk be very beneficial, carbohydrates and protein are compound of bio-chemicals and we derive them from the food that we eat.
When they apply it in the cassava or even potatoes it will produce well for good consumption, cassava is use from making garri and in my country Nigeria garri is very important so I think this is the best crop for biochemical because it will be very beneficial to farmers and it will help in reducing the cost.

Make a chart of which pesticides are used for which pest in your area and discuss with us. Special Note: If not aware of this, a permanent farmer or anyone involved in agriculture can take help.

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Farmers in my area are using uproot chemicals to chase away weeds from their farm land.
In my area, the majority of the farmers are into cassava farming because it is very beneficial in my area. Weeds are the pest that mostly disturbs cassava farmers and prevents the cassava from producing well.

Once the first grass come out, some will weed it by themselves, but the best way is just to apply uproot chemicals, and it will kill the grass within a short period of time.
This process will make the cassava produce very well because it will be free from grasses.

For bush rabbits and birds, trap is set by hunters to capture the rabbits whenever they come to destroy a farm.
Many yam farm, have been destroyed by this particular pest because they come at night to dig and feed on it.
For the birds, when they come to peach on it, the hunters will use their gum to kill them.

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