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Re: Cowpea (beans) Cultivation In South West 2021 by Dawson126: 10:14pm On Oct 28, 2021 |
Chemical and physical controls Physical is anything you can use visible contact to solve. You can kill, pick, wash off or chase off the insect. Currently, on my cowpea farm, there is this black insect resembling soldier ant and they're molding sand around the beans plants and sometimes the flowers. Normally, I would have used insecticides on them but No I didn't. Why? Because, with little shaking, they fall off even with wind, there are not feasible harm they're causing, and rain washes them off, which these days, it's like June. I am not ready to overwhelm the beans with chemicals Chemical Control you always be your last resolve when all the above fails or does not make sense as in it is not feasible 1 Like |
Re: Cowpea (beans) Cultivation In South West 2021 by Dawson126: 10:22pm On Oct 28, 2021 |
OK. Let me start with the pictures now. There are two farms, four units. Farm A Unit 1= flowering and fruiting stage Unit 2= early flowering stage Farm B Unit 3 (Cowpea intercrop with (few) maize = preparing to spread hand (don't forget, they're semi erect), some preparing to flower Unit 4= bringing their 4th -5th leaves (4th -5th trifoliate) This is physical control. Till now, we have not sprayed the beans with insecticides and little insect pests infestation The pictures now |
Re: Cowpea (beans) Cultivation In South West 2021 by Dawson126: 10:25pm On Oct 28, 2021 |
Unit 1. Closed up already, minimal weeds present and weeding not a necessity now but could be handpicked
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Re: Cowpea (beans) Cultivation In South West 2021 by Dawson126: 10:26pm On Oct 28, 2021 |
Pods above the canopy
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Re: Cowpea (beans) Cultivation In South West 2021 by Dawson126: 10:30pm On Oct 28, 2021 |
Unit 2. Delayed weeding caused them not to spread hand much but as rain is doing here, which I've got mixed reaction on, they might do.
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Re: Cowpea (beans) Cultivation In South West 2021 by Dawson126: 10:32pm On Oct 28, 2021 |
Unit 3 Maize intercrop, currently being weeded
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Re: Cowpea (beans) Cultivation In South West 2021 by Dawson126: 10:35pm On Oct 28, 2021 |
Unit 4 Still leafing
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Re: Cowpea (beans) Cultivation In South West 2021 by Dawson126: 10:36pm On Oct 28, 2021 |
Being weeded
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Re: Cowpea (beans) Cultivation In South West 2021 by Dawson126: 10:38pm On Oct 28, 2021 |
Early morning bloom 1 Like
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Re: Cowpea (beans) Cultivation In South West 2021 by princenomics: 12:12am On Oct 29, 2021 |
Good day Sir and thanks so much for all the insights on beans farming. Please besides September, what other months would you recommend for beans farming in the south? Regards |
Re: Cowpea (beans) Cultivation In South West 2021 by Yemighty2(m): 11:35am On Oct 29, 2021 |
Re: Cowpea (beans) Cultivation In South West 2021 by Dawson126: 3:17pm On Oct 30, 2021 |
Yemighty2: Good day sir, sorry for the delay. Legume force might do it. Please mark might. You could end up not really happy with the kind of result you might have at the end of the day. Just like Lagon used in maize and cassava intercrop (MCI) (if you have an experienced MCI farmer, ask them about lagon). Legume force need a degree of moisture (condensed water dropplet) in air and residual water in the soil to be effective. And also, not all cowpea varieties can withstand imazethapyr (active ingredient in legume force) . Please mark not all. Imazethapyr is a derivative of imazapyr. This imazapyr is a powerful herbicide, not only on land but also in water! You wonder how white people could cultivate several hectares of maize and wouldn't have to disturb themselves on weeding? One of these days, we will talk about imazapyr and it derivatives. And the goodnews, we have them in Nigeria. 1 Like |
Re: Cowpea (beans) Cultivation In South West 2021 by Dawson126: 3:21pm On Oct 30, 2021 |
Harvesting is close at hand but this time, I will be away like a month. Education could be burden sometimes 1 Like
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Re: Cowpea (beans) Cultivation In South West 2021 by Ernerstdavid55(m): 4:19pm On Oct 30, 2021 |
Wow |
Re: Cowpea (beans) Cultivation In South West 2021 by Dawson126: 11:23pm On Nov 25, 2021 |
After the long absence, got to field today and harvest began. More updates and pics tomorrow 1 Share
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Re: Cowpea (beans) Cultivation In South West 2021 by Dawson126: 11:25pm On Nov 25, 2021 |
2 and half bags of unshelled beans 1 Like
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Re: Cowpea (beans) Cultivation In South West 2021 by Dawson126: 11:27pm On Nov 25, 2021 |
More updates to come tomorrow 1 Like
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Re: Cowpea (beans) Cultivation In South West 2021 by Adebayour49(m): 1:24pm On Dec 10, 2021 |
princenomics: Most of the beneficial insects are piercing and sucking insects and most field insecticides used are (Lambda plus, chyphermetrin, e.t.c) which are very effective in the control of biting and chewing insects. That's why insecticides like snipers are not mostly used on the field cus they kill anything insect either biting, chewing or piercing. |
Re: Cowpea (beans) Cultivation In South West 2021 by aceonline: 1:53pm On Apr 22, 2022 |
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Re: Cowpea (beans) Cultivation In South West 2021 by agricexport(m): 2:56pm On Jul 13 |
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