Following a ready market for the cash crop, pyrethrum will be grown alongside other crops such as potatoes, coffee, and maize, among others. [Kipsang Joseph, Standard] Almost two decades after ...

The Pyrethrum Board of Kenya Staff Superannuation Scheme was established in 1991. Each member was contributing five per cent of his or her salary towards the scheme while PBK was matching the ...

For many of us, chrysanthemums are the unofficial flowers of fall. As the air turns crisp, I love to see their fiery-colored ...

Grow in a garden or container and keep the soil moist but not wet. Marigolds contain a compound called pyrethrum that is foul-smelling to various insects, including mosquitoes. Plant them in a border ...

The material was brought to the notice of medical entomologists in Great Britain and the United States at a critical moment in the War when the supplies of pyrethrum were rapidly falling short of ...

I would also like to get into dairy or pyrethrum farming near my mum’s rural home in Nakuru county, but I am not sure how to get started or whether this will be a good venture. From your ...

Last summer, Rwandan president Paul Kagame was walking through a field of flowering pyrethrum, a plant that’s a natural mosquito repellent and a cash crop for local villagers. Behind him ...

The crops that are currently classified as permanent or semi-permanent are cashew nuts, citrus, cloves, coconuts, coffee, ...

Mycotoxins: A toxin produced by a fungus. Natural insecticides: An insecticide produced from plant extracts, e.g., pyrethrum is produced from the flower chrysanthemum. Open-pollinated: Pollination ...