{"id":5895,"date":"2019-10-14T09:53:59","date_gmt":"2019-10-14T06:53:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=5895"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:36","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:36","slug":"adoption-of-technology-key-in-war-against-pests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2019\/10\/14\/adoption-of-technology-key-in-war-against-pests\/","title":{"rendered":"Adoption Of Technology Key In War Against Pests"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>By\nEditorial<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Reports that adoption of\nsatellite-backed pest alerts has helped small-scale farmers reduce crop losses\nis clear proof that technology can play a vital role in today\u2019s agricultural\nsector.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We\nwelcome the initiative that saw farmers who received early alerts record a\nslight reduction in crop losses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According\nto a survey conducted during the 2018\/19 crop season, farmers who received\nalerts reported 21 percent losses compared to 26 percent by their counterparts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The\nsurvey was conducted by the UK Space Agency, which is implementing Pest Risk\nInformation Service technology to alert farmers on pests.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We\nwelcome the participation of the Kenya Agricultural and Livestock Research\nOrganization and the Centre for Agriculture and Bioscience International in the\ncrucial survey\u2026<a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessdailyafrica.com\/analysis\/editorials\/Adoption-of-technology-key-in-war-against-\/4259378-5309998-sc8gu0z\/index.html\">Read\nmore&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Editorial Reports that adoption of satellite-backed pest alerts has helped small-scale farmers reduce crop losses is clear proof that technology can play a vital role in today\u2019s agricultural sector.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":5896,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5895","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5895"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5895\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}