CropLife Ghana in collabration with CABI organized a four(4) days Non- Residential training session for field Agronomist at Tomreik Hotel, East Legon in Accra.
The whole of module training takes the trainees from describing symptoms to learning about the
causes of symptoms and then onto how to ascribe those symptoms to various causes.
The training equipped the trainees with the digital and physical tools that give diagnostic support in the field. At he end of the training, participants were able to diagnose pests and diseases to at least the group level, which enables them to choose the best management option.
Trainees are better equipped to support farmers with advice that has been analysed based on efficacy, practicality, availability, cost, and safety.
This module were designed to take trainees through the following areas.
1. Options for managing the major pest groups.
2. What makes good recommendations?
3. How to integrate pest management options and
4. The limitations of control methods and the safe use of control methods
The training was facilitator by Mrs. Hannah Serwaa Nuamah and Mr. Theophilus Zottorgloh frpm the P[lant Protection and Regulatory Services Division of the Ministry of Food and Agriculture (PPRSD-MOFA)
