Tasmanian-grown pyrethrum is now becoming a bigger part of other local industries. When the pyrethrum plant is processed for its natural insecticide (the chemical pyrethrin), the leftover parts of the ...

A pyrethrum farm in Temoyetta Village, Kuresoi North on November 26, 2021. [Kennedy Gachuhi, Standard]. The county government has partnered with the Pyrethrum Processing Company of Kenya (PPCK) to ...

June 22, 2021 – Unless you enjoy getting bit by mosquitoes, you've probably used insect repellent once or twice in your life. While we use cans full of chemicals, flowers have their own way of ...

Flowers often have their own way of preventing pests. A recent Sustainable, Secure Food blog from the American Society of Agronomy (ASA) and Crop Science Society of America (CSSA) discusses the ...

About 200 years ago in Asia, it was noticed for the first time that some insects would not visit certain plants. Those that did died shortly afterwards. One group of such plants was the chrysanthemums ...

TANZANIA: OVER 50 best pyrethrum farmers in Southern highlands regions have been identified as role models in efforts to boost the production of the crop. The shortlisted ones proved to have been ...

Local pyrethrum farmers and key stakeholders have faulted the appointment of the chairperson of the financially troubled Pyrethrum Processing Company of Kenya (PPCK) by President Uhuru Kenyatta.

A tractor is busy cultivating an arable land in Molo just next to the Pyrethrum Board of Kenya research station. It is during this planting season that farmers take advantage of the research station ...

Pyrethrum was introduced in Kenya in the 1920’s by colonial farmers, who through influence caused the enactment of the Pyrethrum Act by the colonial Government. And at independence Chapter 340 of the ...