The fight against the devastating papaya mealybug has been stepped up in the country in four counties with the release of a natural enemy known as Acerophagus papayae. A papayae is a small parasitic ...

A new study published in the CABI Agriculture and Bioscience journal has revealed a willingness of smallholder papaya farmers in Kenya to reduce their chemical pesticide use to fight the papaya ...

They were everywhere—it was as if an entire forest of papaya trees in India were covered in a wispy, cotton-like substance. The unidentified substance proved deadly to the papaya trees, destroying the ...