Guinea project 675-0219 · 1993–1995 · Chemonics International Inc.

The Guinea Natural Resources Management Project (6750219) has been working to improve natural resource management within Guinea's watersheds since 1990. This report contains the results of a 21-day mission to the project's target watersheds of Dissa, Koundou, and Diafore to assess pest incidence (especially termites and pest of stored products) and pesticide use, and to recommend an integrated pest management strategy. Primarily the report found that (1) Dissa and Koundou were most afflicted by grasshoppers (which infested vegetable gardens) and storage pests (e.g., the maize weevil, larger and lesser grain beetle, angoumois moth, and cowpea weevil); (2) secondary pests included weaver ants (orange and mango trees), fruit flies (vegetables), cotton stainers (rice), bollworms (orange fruit), and mealybugs (cassava); (3) the use of chemical pesticides was rare and usually a component of a broad donor-based initiative; (4) local pest control entailed only the mechanical control of termites and stored products pests, supplemented with botanical and traditional plant treatments; (5) information on pesticides was difficult to obtain, even for government agents; (6) pesticide storage fa

Source: DEC abstract, PN-ABT-022 (1994). The source's own text.