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The role of natural products in integrated tick management in Africa

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 September 2011

C. K. M. Kaposhi
C. K. M. Kaposhi
Affiliation:
National Council for Scientific Research, Livestock and Pest Research Centre, P. O. Box 350049, Chilanga, Zambia
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Abstract

The use of synthetic acaricides in tick control is increasingly becoming more expensive. As a result, a lot of Africa's resource-poor farmers are failing to dip their cattle regularly. Natural products offer these farmers a cheaper alternative to synthetic acaricides. There is indeed a great potential for the use of Africa's huge natural resources, the plants to develop sources of acaricides to reduce the cost of tick control being locally available and potentially being able to be produced and used by farmers themselves or by cottage industries. It is, however, necessary that research centres such as ICIPE encourage the development of systematic research on natural products in order to bring about the Tephrosia vogelii leaf extracts observed to be highly toxic to one-, two- and three-host ticks and cattle sprayed with the extract had a residual protection period of 10 days from re-infestation by ticks.

Résumé

L'utilisation des acaricides synthetiques dans la tique du contrôle est en train de devenir de plus en plus chère. Et comme résultat, beaucoup de fermiers africains qui ont une pauvre ressource ne parviennent pas a tremper leurs bétail reguliérement. Par contre, le produits naturels offrent a ces fermiers une facan moins chère aux acaricides synthetiques. De toute façon, il y a un grand potentiel pour l'utilisation des immenses ressources naturels d'Afrique. Les plantes pour déveloper les sources des acaricides pour diminuer le coût de la tique étant localement disponible et potentiellement étant capable d'être produites et utilisées par les fermiers eux-mêmes ou par les artisanats. Il est pourtant nécessaire que les centres de recherches tel que ICIPE encouragent le développement de la recherche systèmatique sur des produits naturels afin d'apporter au moins les extraits de la feuille Tephrosia vogelii qui étaient observés d'être d'une grande toxique a un hôte, deux hôtes et trois hôte les tiques et le bétail asperge avec l'extrait avait une période de protection residue de dix jours a partir de la re-infestation par les tiques.

Keywords

Natural productsintegrated tick managementacaricidesresource-pooranti-allatotropicjuvenile hormonebolusesacaricidal plantsrotenonecrude leaf extractresidual protectiontoxic residuesProduits naturelsl'administration de la tique integréeacaricidespauvre ressourceanti-allotiopiquehormone juvenilebolusesplantes acaricidesrotenoneextrait de la feuille brutprotection residueresidu toxique
Type
Biological Control, Natural Products and Social Science
Information
International Journal of Tropical Insect Science , Volume 13 , Special Issue 4: Status and Recent Advances in Tick Management in Africa , August 1992 , pp. 595 - 598
Copyright
Copyright © ICIPE 1992

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