On our motorbike carrier; were the MM cassava series cuttings, a species that is resistant to cassava mosaic, drought and also matures in less than 5 months. The local species takes a life span more than 12 months to mature and furthermore, it is susceptible to the threatening cassava mosaic, a disease that flushed out most cassava plantations in Kenya in the late 1990's.
The 5 maize species, 2 sorghum species, tomatoes and the bean species are already at the knee level. Even though crops are doing much better, but the excess rain is now streaming threats to the beans and the tomatoes that are already fruiting. All these threats have been taken into account and the farmer too has been advised on the control measures that he has to check on or communicate to us whenever they persist.
Otherwise we are projecting to have the field day either in late June or mid July 2012. All our readers and follower are invited when that time comes.
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