scholarly journals Review of plant health clinics: a recent phenomenon for effective plant pests and diseases diagnosis

2021 ◽  
Vol 49 (3) ◽  
pp. 90-103
Author(s):  
Maanda Rambauli ◽  
Antwi ◽  
Mudau
Keyword(s):  
Management Strategy ◽  
Smallholder Farmers ◽  
Plant Health ◽  
Plant Production ◽  
Health Clinic ◽  
Pests And Diseases ◽  
Plant Pests ◽  
Health Clinics ◽  
Basic Plant ◽  
Plant Clinics

Plant health clinic is a mechanism in which farmers are able to access basic plant healthcare and services from relevant authority in relation to infested or suspected infested plants and plant products for diagnostic purposes. Plant health clinic is an integral part of the plant health system which provides early pest diagnostic and advisory services to farmers. In this paper, it can be further defined as a basic plant healthcare rendered to farmers to enhance and improve plant production thereby diagnosing plant pests and diseases with the aim of employing appropriate pest management strategy. In many countries, plant health clinics operators are extension experts, plant doctors, inspectors and scientists within government and NGOs. Extension support in particular is critical in the operation of plant health clinics. The purpose of this paper is to provide a global overview of plant clinic as a recent ways of plant diseases diagnosis. This paper concluded that plant health clinics are valuable tools which need to be adopted by various countries for smallholder farmers to understand more about plant pests and diseases as well as management strategy. To the contrary, many countries are dependent on national diagnostic services as opposed to basic plant healthcare which is more accessible to the smallholders. This review paper further revealed that plant health clinics’ knowledge, awareness, accessibility and satisfaction of the smallholder farmers are very important. Plant clinics may not efficiently and effectively operate in the absence of the aforementioned aspects. Plant clinics were found to be the most efficient way to reach smallholder farmers for advice.  

scholarly journals SWOT analysis of plant health clinics as perceived by plant doctors in Nepal

2018 ◽  
pp. 137-146
Author(s):  
R. K. Adhikari ◽  
P. P. Regmi ◽  
R. B Thapa ◽  
Y. D. G.C. ◽  
E. Boa
Keyword(s):  
Online Survey ◽  
Swot Analysis ◽  
Plant Health ◽  
Survey Tool ◽  
Extension System ◽  
Health Clinics ◽  
Novel Approach ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Plant Clinics ◽  
External Forces

 This paper identified and examined the internal and external forces that enable or inhibit the performance of plant clinics in Nepal. The study used web-based online survey tool to collect primary information. Likert scaling and indexing techniques were used on data analysis. Pretested set of questionnaires were mailed to 209 plant doctors and the response rate was 54.54%. Being ninth country to initiate plant health clinics, Nepal is successful to adapt this novel approach into the existing extension system. It has increased access to plant health services by providing wide range of services at a place. However,limited understanding and only profit motive of local private agro-vet and input dealers has created some biased-understanding and un-trust with clinic organizers. This SWOT analysis clearly spells the scope of plant clinics to fulfill the gap between farmers need and existing services provided by public extension system.Journal of the Institute of Agriculture and Animal Science.Vol. 33-34, 2015, page: 137-146

scholarly journals Impact of Plant Clinics on Farmers’ Knowledge, Attitude and Practice With Plant Health Issues

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (9) ◽  
pp. 1490
Author(s):  
Raj K Adhikari ◽  
Punya P Regmi ◽  
Resham B Thapa ◽  
Yubak D. GC ◽  
Eric Boa
Keyword(s):  
Positive Impact ◽  
Simple Random Sampling ◽  
Threshold Level ◽  
Plant Health ◽  
Health Issues ◽  
Pests And Diseases ◽  
Attitude And Practice ◽  
Plant Clinics ◽  
Knowledge Attitude And Practice ◽  
Structured Questionnaire

Plant clinics in Nepal has been started in 2008 and has coverage in more than 40 districts of Nepal. A study has been conducted in Chitwan district of Nepal to assess the changes on farmer’s knowledge attitude and practice due to implementation of plant clinics. Total of 175 clinic attendants and 175 non-attendants were selected by simple random sampling method and interviewed by using semi-structured questionnaire. By and large, this study found wider positive changes among clinic attendants than non-attendants especially on their knowledge and skills to identity pests and diseases with their causes and practice appropriate remedial measures against those problems. The study revealed positive impact to by increasing knowledge and skillset among attending farmers to assess the season of disease and pest occurrence, estimate economic threshold level as well as preventive and curative measures against the plant health problems. Plant clinic has made impressive positive changes on adoption of recommended dose of pesticides and organic control methods among attendants than non-attendants. The level of awareness and adoption of waiting period after pesticide use was found higher among attendants than non-attendants.

scholarly journals Plant clinics in Peru and the hidden enemies of agriculture

2020 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. 3-27
Author(s):  
J. Franco; Ponce
Keyword(s):  
Integrated Management ◽  
Data Bank ◽  
Plant Health ◽  
Health Campaigns ◽  
Pests And Diseases ◽  
Plant Clinics ◽  
Database Platform

The Plant Clinics (PCs), with CABI Plantwise Program (Centre for Agricultural Bioscience International), were officially initiated in Peru in 2012 by an agreement signed with the INIA (National Institute of Agrarian Innovation). Under this Agreement, PCs were originally established in four Experimental Stations (EEA) located in four regions of Peru, to subsequently include 4 more, making a total of 8 regions with different agro-ecologies (Jungle: Tarapoto; Sierra: Cajamarca, Huancayo, Ayacucho, Cusco and Puno; Coast: Chiclayo and Lima). These PCs have the presence of a "Plant Doctor" (PDs), an INIA technician, duly trained in Plant Health, who once a week at a certain place provides services to farmers who bring samples of their "sick" crops”. Examined the sample by the PDs, records the symptoms and diagnosis in a database platform. Then PDs provide the farmer with the most convenient recommendations within an Integrated Management  of the relevant crop. The PDs also carry out “Health Campaigns” on the main problems detected in the CPs, as well as field visits, providing “Flying Sheets”, written in a simple and precise way for the identification of phytosanitary problems and their respective management. The information kept in a Data Bank has allowed  to know crops with the highest demand and the incidence and severity of their pests and diseases in the eight regions of Perú.

scholarly journals Plant Clinic Towards Plant Health and Food Security

2013 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 193-203
Author(s):  
Mahendra P. Srivastava
Keyword(s):  
Food Security ◽  
Health Management ◽  
Insect Pests ◽  
Arable Land ◽  
Management Strategies ◽  
Plant Health ◽  
Health Clinic ◽  
Pests And Diseases ◽  
Food And Agriculture ◽  
Adequate Food

Ever-growing population, climatic changes and unprecedented losses due to pests and diseases pose serious threat to food security. Precisely food security implies availability of adequate food to everyone in all times to come. Food and Agriculture Organization of united Nations (FAO) defines “food security” as a state of affairs where all people at all times have access to safe and nutritious food to maintain healthy and active life. Food is one of the three basic needs of man, without which his survival is at stake. Plants constitute the basic source of food and as such, plant health management is crucial to food security, which is jeopardized due to unprecedented threat by large number of insect-pests, diseases, weeds and several edaphic and environmental stresses. Srivastava (2008, 2009) has very well highlighted the importance of plant heath security through phytomedicines/pesticides and plant health clinic in order to prevent 40 per cent losses occurring from field to fork globally. Due to unabated rise in population, reduction in arable land will be an ongoing process, hence we may have to strive hard to grow more food from limited land employing innovative strategies and more importantly adopting multipronged initiative and timely diagnostic and management strategies from plant health clinic to combat attack from pests and environmental stress, manage plant health mitigate losses.

scholarly journals Plantwise: A Knowledge and Intelligence Tool for Food Security through Crop Protection

2021 ◽  
pp. 231-248
Author(s):  
Claire Beverley ◽  
Manju Thakur
Keyword(s):  
Food Security ◽  
Smallholder Farmers ◽  
Crop Protection ◽  
Food Prices ◽  
Plant Health ◽  
World Population ◽  
Simulation Games ◽  
Pests And Diseases ◽  
Digital Interventions ◽  
Management Advice

AbstractFood security continues to be significantly impacted by a growing world population, changing climate, increasing food prices and environmental burden. One of the key challenges in reducing crop losses due to pests and diseases is timely delivery of appropriate, actionable extension advice to farmers. Information and communication technology (ICT) has the potential to improve services that connect smallholder farmers to new resources and information, helping to build their knowledge and ultimately improve their livelihoods. Such ICT-driven services have seen rapid growth over the past few years, and CABI has been harnessing this technology in several programmes. This chapter provides insight into digital interventions of the global, CABI-led programme, Plantwise, which aims to assist stakeholders in developing countries to improve their plant health systems by strengthening linkages among all actors involved, so that they can prevent and manage pest outbreaks more effectively. An overview of digital interventions piloted and tested under the umbrella of the Plantwise programme is illustrated with selected case studies. Interventions include pest diagnosis and management advice delivered via a website, plant health data collection, using a customized mobile application, and educational simulation games for ongoing support.

scholarly journals Plant Health and How it Affects Private Gardens: Experience from a Botanic Garden Pathologist

2005 ◽  
pp. 51-57
Author(s):  
Stephan Helfer
Keyword(s):  
Fungal Infection ◽  
Royal Botanic Garden ◽  
Plant Health ◽  
Botanic Gardens ◽  
Botanic Garden ◽  
Pests And Diseases ◽  
Plant Pests

Like many other botanic gardens the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (RBGE) provides advice about plant pests and diseases to amateur gardeners. This paper summarises the main problem plant categories (such as trees and vegetables), plant problems (such as pests or fungal infection) and other observations, such as number of enquiries by month noted by pathology staff at the Garden over the last twenty years.

Identification and prioritization of farmers' innovations in northern Ghana

2014 ◽  
Vol 30 (6) ◽  
pp. 537-549 ◽  
Author(s):  
Justice A. Tambo ◽  
Tobias Wünscher
Keyword(s):  
Smallholder Farmers ◽  
Household Survey ◽  
Northern Ghana ◽  
Plant Residues ◽  
Simple Method ◽  
Pests And Diseases ◽  
Innovation Contest ◽  
Scientific Validation ◽  
Livestock Diseases

AbstractFarmers are innovators and experimenters and not just adopters of introduced technologies. The innovations developed by farmers could complement the highly promoted externally driven technologies in addressing the numerous challenges facing agriculture. The aim of this paper was to identify outstanding innovations developed by smallholder farmers in northern Ghana, and prioritize the high potential ones for further scientific validation or dissemination. Using an innovation contest that rewards farmers' creativity, we identified 29 promising innovations. Additionally, 19 innovations were scouted through a household survey. The innovations are largely extensive modifications of existing practices or combinations of different known practices in unique ways to save costs or to address crop and livestock production constraints. While some of the identified innovations can be recommended or disseminated to other farmers, most of them may require further validation or research. However, validating all of these innovations will be very expensive and time-consuming. We propose the multi-criteria decision-making analysis (MCDM) as a simple method to prioritize farmers' innovations. Using this method, we find that among the most promising innovations are those involving the control of weeds, pests and diseases using plant residues and extracts, and the treatment of livestock diseases using ethnoveterinary medicines. We briefly explain the six most highly ranked innovations. This case study from northern Ghana provides further proof that smallholder farmers develop diverse and spectacular innovations to address the myriad challenges they face, and these need to be recognized and promoted. We also conclude that contest and MCDM are useful methods that can be applied in unearthing and prioritizing farmer innovations, respectively.

scholarly journals Catalogue of Pests and Pathogens of Trees on the Island of Ireland

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard O'Hanlon ◽  
Cathal Ryan ◽  
James Choiseul ◽  
Archie K. Murchie ◽  
Christopher Williams
Keyword(s):  
Northern Ireland ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
Invasive Plant ◽  
Plant Health ◽  
Plant Pests ◽  
Plant Pest ◽  
International Regulations ◽  
History Of ◽  
Native Invasive ◽  
Research And Policy

Trees provide key ecosystem services, but the health and sustainability of these plants is under increasing biotic and abiotic threat, including from the growing incidences of non-native invasive plant pests (including pathogens). The island of Ireland (Ireland and Northern Ireland) is generally accepted to have a high plant health status, in part due to its island status and because of the national and international regulations aimed at protecting plant health. To establish a baseline of the current pest threats to tree health for the island of Ireland, the literature and unpublished sources were reviewed to produce a dataset of pests of trees on the island of Ireland. The dataset contains 396 records of pests of trees on the island of Ireland, the majority of pests being arthropods and fungi, and indicating potentially more than 44 non-native pest introductions. The reliability of many (378) of the records was judged to be high, therefore the dataset provides a robust assessment of the state of pests of trees recorded on the island of Ireland. We analyse this dataset and review the history of plant pest invasions, including (i) discussion on notable native and non-native pests of trees, (ii) pest interceptions at borders and (iii) pests and climate change. The dataset establishes an important baseline for the knowledge of plant pests on the island of Ireland, and will be a valuable resource for future plant health research and policy making.

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