The training which was organized with SPMC and the Royal Museum of Central Africa, Tervue Belgium is one of the planned outcomes of an ongoing JRS Biodiversity Foundation project, viz. PINDIP: the Pollinator Information Network on Two-winged Insects (Diptera) (and of the RMCA-DGD project AGROVEG (Agroecology of Vegetable Crops).Read More
SUA Pest Management Centre sponsored PhD Researchers will conduct research that will improve and preserve environment for the benefit of human being and other living organisms through Rodents. The research is aiming at looking the challenges and importance of different Tanzania areas so as to understand and to alleviate the challenges found on the field....Read More
Dr. Georges Mgode, a researcher at Sokoine University of Agriculture, Pest Management Centre, Tanzania, and researchers from University of Pretoria, South Africa and Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine, Germany reveal mechanisms that render ‘ mole rats’ insensitive to pain when exposed to acid or capsaicin. Read More
Pest Management Center organizes training on prevention of postharvest losses with Agricultural officers from Kilosa district, Morogoro, Tanzania. This one day training, officiated by the Director of Pest Management Center, Dr. Ladslaus Mnyone, will take place at the Center on 14th June 2019 ...Read More
Maafisa wawili toka Umoja wa Afrika, Dkt Monica EbeleIdinoba na Bi Khadidiatou, walitembelea Kituo cha Kudhibiti Viumbe Hai Waharibifu, SUA, kwa siku mbili, tarehe 25 hadi 26 mwezi Machi, mwaka 2019. Lengo lilikuwa kujionea maendeleo ya mradi wa udhibiti wa panya unaofadhiliwa na Jumuiya ya Ulaya kupitia Umoja wa Afrika (AU). Mradi huu wa miaka...Read More
Director of SPMC with visiting Research Scientists from the Institute of Vertebrate Biology, ASCR- Czech Republic August, 2018. Standing from left is Dr. Kreisinger Jakub (Czech Republic), Prof. Apia Massawe, Leader ACE IRPM&BTD, Dr. Tatiana Aghova (Czech Republic), Dr. Ladsaus Mnyone, Director SPMC, Dr. Christopher Sabuni (SPMC), Miss. Bendoya Edita (Czech Republic). Mr. Khalid Kibwana...Read More
On 24th December 2018, the Sokoine University of agriculture, Pest Management Centre (SPMC) organized a half-day visit to Mgolole orphanage, located at Bigwa, Morogoro, Tanzania. On that occasion, donations of food items, toiletries, and other daily necessities were given to the kids. Mgolole orphanage strives to ensure that the kids achieve their life dreams, an...Read More
In an interview with several farmers in the village, they said the big number of rodents that had invaded crop fields and maize warehouses had been driven away after the application of the Cat urine odour. After applying the Cat urine odour in the crop field or at home, it can take up to six...Read More
Researchers from Sokoine University of Agriculture, Pest Management Centre (SPMC) conducted a four days training on the prevention of post harvest losses using Hermetic bags and other methods from 10th – 13th December 2018. About 150 smallholder farmers from Isimani ward, Iringa region, participated in this training sponsored by a COSTECH funded project “Developing and...Read More
Programme Manager from the Gates Foundation, Miss Jodi Lilley, met staff from SUA-Pest Management Centre (SPMC) and Tanzania Agricultural Research Institute (TARI) in December 5, 2018, at Kibaha Tanzania, to discuss progress of two on-going projects at SPMC and TARI. The project at SPMC is aimed at developing a predictive model for early warning of...Read More
