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Storage pest management • Timely harvesting • Appropriate grain drying • Maintaning store hygiene  • Avoid mixing old and newly harvested grain in the same store • Use organic/botanical pesticides (ash, Vernonia spp. and Tephrosia sp. leaf powder, chillis, etc.) • Judicious use of conventional insecticides • Use a combination of strategies (IPM).     Cultivation of Climbing Beans For more information contact:  International Centre for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) P O Box 2704 Arusha, Tanzania  Tel: (+255-27) 2502268/2508557 Fax: (+255-27) 2508557 E-mail: ciattz@habari.co.tz Remember: More production from small                       land area • Use tolerant/resistant bean genotypes  • Judicious use of conventional insecticides • Use different combinations of the above (IPM).   Common bush Climbing beans Traditional pesticides    Bean grain processing for storage  Mlango wa kujazia pipa. Mbegu zinawekwandani ya pipa.   Choma takataka zote nje Burn all residues Door  Drum with grains  Land preparation Prepare the land well in advance by removing all weeds and leaving a fine seed bed.  Planting • Seed sowing should be carried out on moist soils • Relay planting can be carried out in a maize field just before harvesting so that maize stalks are used as stakes • Two seeds are planted at 75 cm between rows and 20 cm between plants within a row • Secure stakes between two planting stations at second trifoliate leaf stage  • Establish fast growing trees around the farm to provide stakes.  Fertilizer application Fertile soils and constant moisture will give a good crop establishment and high yields: • Use organic/botanical fertilizers (e.g. Vernonia spp. or Tithonia sp.) leaves • Use animal manure or compost (these should be well decomposed)  • Use inorganic fertilizers such as Diammonium phosphate- DAP (18: 46: P2O5) at planting and Calcium ammonium nitrate- CAN (27% N) as  top dress.    Weed control The bean crop has to be kept weed free for good performance.  The first weeding should be carried out within 2 weeks after planting.  Subsequent weeding can be done as required.  Disease management Diseases are among the major constriants to bean production: • Use clean seed that is free from diseases  • Use disease resistant/tolerant genotypes • Adopt timely planting during the season • Practice crop rotation and/crop mixtures • Remove all crop residues from the field • Use organic pesticides e.g. a mixture of animal milk + wood ash + water • Judicious use of conventional chemical pesticides  • Use a combination of the above (integrated disease management-IDM).  Field insect pest management Insect pests account for various levels of losses in the field.  Management include: • Timely planting • Crop rotation and intercropping • Use organic and botanical insecticides       (e.g. cow urine, ash, neem seed oil and powder, kerosene and soap, Vernonia sp. and Tithonia spp., etc.  Introduction Climbing beans, unlike bush beans require support (stakes) to trail on.  Tree branches, other crops (e.g. maize stalks and fruit trees) and fence materials can be used.   Climbing beans give 3-4 times more yield than bush beans.  Cultivars The following cultivars have successfully been tested and proved to be suitable to farmers in different locations in eastern and central Africa: IZO 201297, MORE 90018, R34, R67, R71, R125, R143, R158, R173 and R180.   Characteristics • Climbing beans are high yielding, producing 3-4 times more compared to other common bean types • Have proved to be tolerant to insect pests (particularly bean stem maggots- BSM), diseases and drought • They require very small land area • Enriches soils through atmospheric nitrogen fixation • Plants provide cover to the soil • Crop residues provide nutritive livestock forage.   

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Cultivation of climbing beans

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