WASHINGTON, D.C. - “It’s
hard to believe, but in many parts
of the world crop pests can mean
the difference between starvation
and survival,” said U.S. Depar
ment of Agriculture weed scientist
Robert Eplee.
Eplee, back from a three-week
trip to tbe drought-plagued ~SaR3
region of Africa, directs some of
the development activities of
USDA’s Animal and Plant Health
Inspection Service.
“Take witchweed,” he said.
“Here in the United States, in a
small area in the Carolmas, this
parasitic weed has caused damage
to corn crops, as well as personal
hardship to fanners.”
But in the Sahel, Eplee said,
witchweed can mean life or death.
"The poor subsistence farmers
m countries like Upper Volta move
|o an area and grow millet, one’of
"he few crops to survive on only a
lew inches of ram a year,” he said.
"Even the first season, witchweed
parasitizes the plants, cutting the
meager yields.”
Each succeeding year crops
become poorer until, m five to
seven years, the farmer and his
family must pick up and move,
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Witchweed casts parasitic
on Carolina farmers
causing social disruption and
creased soil erosion.
The pool peasants believe their
crops are "bewitched," Eplee
said.
No wonder witchweed seems like
a magic force. When it first
cropped up m the Carolmas in the
195 Q’s, farmers there saw then
corn mysteriously wither and die
and crops dwindle until a
visiting student from India saw
and recognized a witchweed plant
with its bnght-red flowers and
properly identified it.
“Witchweed does most of its
damage before it appears above
ground,” said Eplee. “A chemical
given out by roots of host plants
such as com, millet, sorghum, and
sugracane causes witchweed seed
to germinate. Soon the witchweed
attaches itself to the plant’s roots,
robbing it of water and nutrients.
"Before they knew what it was,”
Eplee said, “Carolina farmers
tried to pull up witchweed to get rid
of it. Doing this actually does harm
smce it can scatter hundreds of
tiny witchweed seeds.
“In the Sahel, farmers still try to
of witchweed by pulling it
up,” said Eplee.
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China organizes U.S. ag exhibit
WASHINGTON, D.C. - The
China Council for the Promotion of
International Trade will organize
and sponsor a traveling exhibit in
China of literature and audio
visual presentations on U.S.
agricultural equipment and in
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Joan Wallace, administrator of
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purchasers to American
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"Witchweed still causes some because if it ever p.«/»aped our
damage here,” said Eplee, “but quarantine net and spread to the
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quarantine and control measures cost farmers and consumers
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save money the exhibitors will use
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ancient imperial capitals—June
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Chinese agricultural authorities
requested the exhibit to provide
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needed to make well-unformed
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year to receive World Bank loans
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