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  • The role of natural products in integrated tick management in Africa

  • C. K. M. Kaposhi
  • Journal:
    Insect Science and Its Application / Volume 13 / Issue 4 / August 1992
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    19 September 2011, pp. 595-598
    Print publication:
    August 1992

  • 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.