Ag solution can boost Senegal's economy while battling parasite
July 23, 2024
July 23, 2024
ITHACA, New York, July 23 -- Cornell University issued the following news:
On the western edge of Africa, in Senegal, Cornell and global researchers are advancing ways to control a fast-growing, invasive and disease-carrying aquatic plant with agricultural solutions.
This plan calls for physically removing the aquatic plants the preferred host of snails that ferry flatworms harboring the disease, Schistosomiasis and turning the flora into inexpensive compost or livestoc . . .
On the western edge of Africa, in Senegal, Cornell and global researchers are advancing ways to control a fast-growing, invasive and disease-carrying aquatic plant with agricultural solutions.
This plan calls for physically removing the aquatic plants the preferred host of snails that ferry flatworms harboring the disease, Schistosomiasis and turning the flora into inexpensive compost or livestoc . . .