Short Term Training – Workshops & field days
Two workshop training events have already been completed in Tanzania as a part of short term capacity building goals.
- The first workshop was a Tanzania Disease and Pest Diagnostic Workshop held at Mikocheni Agricultural Research Institute (MARI) in August 2016. The workshop focused on microscopy, culturing, serological and molecular diagnostics for plant pathogens, and taxonomic methods for insect pests and weeds. Here are some images from the workshop:
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- The second workshop focused on Seedling Health for growers, extension personnel, and students. We taught using materials and hands-on techniques to produce disease- and insect-free vegetable seedlings as first step in IPM. For more information about this workshop, click on the links below:
– “Seedling Health Workshop at Sokoine University of Agriculture (SUA) in Morogoro, Tanzania 2017”
– “Vegetable Seedling Health Management Workshop Background, Goals, and Schedule”
– “Workshop and a Bagamoyo Farmer Make Seedling Health the Foundation of IPM”
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Long Term Training – graduate education
Long-term training has already begun for graduate students working on Vegetable IPM issues.
Feyisa Bekele is a M.S. student at Hawassa University working with Drs. Ferdu Azerefegne and Yibrah Beyene. His project involves field testing herbicides for onions and implications on labor needs for weeding. The efficacy of pendimethalin and oxyfulrofen will be the focus of this work. In addition, he will survey onion fields to estimate the cost of weeding in the production of onion and the weed composition.
Yosef Berihun is a M.S. student at Hawass University who will be working on an evaluation of products containing Trichoderma. He is advised by Alemayehu. The treatments will include from two known sources, Kuppert and Real IPM, as well as Ethiopian collections . The study will be both in greenhouse and field.
Happiness Christopher is a MSc student in Plant Protection at SUA.
Kumsa Dida is a M.S. student at Hawassa University working with Drs: Alemayehu and Ferdu. His reseach involves a study on effect of healthy pepper seedlings on virus diseases, especially the Ethiopian pepper mottle virus. He is examining the efficiency of screen covering to protect pepper seedlings from virus disease is understudy. Preliminary data which show that pepper transplanted in the fields and protected with screens for different durations had varying levels of infection. The trial will be repeated in Ziway. In addition, Kumsa will survey farmers’ fields to estimate the prevalence and importance of pepper viruses.
Hellen Elias Kanyagha is a Ph.D. student from Tanzania studying at Ohio State University in the Department of Plant Pathology under advisor Sally Miller. Hellen began her studies in March 2017 and will complete the program July 2019. Her thesis topic is “Characterization and Potential IPM Strategies in Managing Ralstonia solanaccearum in Tomato”.
Peter A. Maerere is a MSc. student at SUA working in the area of entomology under the Plant Protection research program.
Ester Rehema Matendo is a student in Plant Protection at Sokonie University of Agriculture (SUA). She is working on a Masters degree.
Cecilia Ngugi, from Kenya, is currently working on her Ph.D. in Plant Pathology at University of Nairobi, Kenya. She started working on her degree in 2016 and is expected to finish in July 2019. Her advisor/PI is Jesca Mbaka and her thesis topic is “Use of Entomopathogenic Nematodes for Management of Tuta absoluta in Tomato”.
Denis Nyamu is from Kenya and is studying at Ohio State University. He started August 2017 on a M.S. degree in Entomology with his advisor Luis Cañas, and will finish his degree in July 2019. His thesis topic is “Tuta absoluta biology and management”.
Tumsifu Samwel is a student in Plant Protection at Sokonie University of Agriculture (SUA). He is working on a Masters degree.
In addition, there are three B.Sc. students in the Agriculture General program at SUA who are working on undergraduate research projects related to IPM. The students are:
Yusuph Chiduli
Kija Wilson Buzizi
Emmanuel W. Chumila