Tahira’s ‘Wrap & Plant Technology’ makes the front page!

Long involved with sustainability projects targeting key agricultural practices to improve the crop yields and prevent crop diseases in sub-Saharan Africa, Tahira and co-authors’ work on a ‘wrap and plant’ technology using banana paper to manage sustainably potato cyst nematodes in East Africa was recently published in Nature Sustainability.

The work also got recently featured on the NC State News front page! Check out the story here. Congratulations, Tahira and co-authors.

You can also check out another recent work on other crop protection technologies in our group here from Tahira and Mariam!

 

Field plots showing the “wrap-and-plant” technology in Kenya. Photo courtesy of Laura Cortada.The wrap-and-plant technology displayed in a Kenyan field.