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Ua Kayongo Hybrid Maize
A New Approach to Controlling Parasitic Striga for Kenyan Maize Producers
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Ua Kayongo Hybrid Maize: The Striga Killer is now available to Kenyan maize producers! StrigawayTM is based upon inherited resistance to a systemic herbicide (Imazapyr). When Imazapyr-resistant (I-R) maize seed is coated with the herbicide, striga attempting to parasitize the resulting plants are destroyed! For the first time, farmers can actively suppress and reduce striga seed banks in soil by protecting maize with a “chemical barrier” to striga infection. Ua Kayongo hybrid maize has been treated with StrigawayTM (Imazapyr) herbicide, Lindane insecticide and Thiram fungicide and is intended for planting in fields infested with Striga. Ua Kayongo is planted and managed in the same way you normally cultivate your maize in terms of spacing and early weed management but special care must be taken not to damage intercrops planted with maize by avoiding contact with StrigawayTM. Ua Kayongo is a modern herbicide technology and NOT a GMO.
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Partners in the AATF Striga Management Project |
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Format Home l Striga Home l Mobilizing Farmers l Striga Threats l Know your Enemy l First Defense Striga Management l Ua Kayongo l Establish Ua Kayongo l Questions on Striga Striga Swahili l Striga Luo l Striga Luhya l Contact Details © 2005.
African Agricultural
Technology Foundation's (
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