UNIT1: Integrated pest management for N2Africa Legume Crops

There are many steps to “good crop management” which are important to all N2Africa crops grown in southern Africa. Many of these are simple practices and techniques which work for nearly all crops, including maize, sweet potato and other crops commonly grown during the rainy season. Some start before the crop has even been planted, for example site selection and land preparation. Others are most important in the earlier stages of crop production, such as weeding. And others are important throughout the growing season, such as removal of plants infected with diseases which can spread to other plants, leave germs in the soil to infect next season’s crops, and so on.