Many will find this hard to believe because of the conditioning we received... “Managed honey bee colonies supplement the work of natural wild pollinators, not the other way around. In a study of 41 different crop systems worldwide, honeybees only increased yield in 14 percent of the crops. Who did all the pollination? Native bees and other insects. A whole host of little blueberry bees, squash bees, and orchard bees co-evolved with many of our fruits and vegetables. It makes sense they would be good at pollination. In watermelons, native bees do 90 percent of the pollination. Native bees improve fruit production in apples. Native bee pollination creates twice as much fruit as honey bees in blueberries. In tomatoes, native bee species increase fruit production significantly.”

Farmers and traders lets be trustful by making sure we feed our clients healthily food. In Uganda they have found out sellers of 🍅 in markets spray certain pesticides so as to make it stay longer before selling. Am advising Farmers to plant better hybrid F1 tomato varieties which can stay longer for like 2 weeks in the market instead of using the chemicals for preserving tomatoes. Plant seeds like ASILA F1, ANNA F1 from Bayer(SEMINIS) and others like Tylka F1, Imara F1, etc which after harvesting can stay for 2 weeks without rotting.

Talk about building soil!

Flowers not chemicals!

🤔 Grasshoppers may be an unlikely alley in holistic management practices. We must start to consider the above ground insects in our holistic management methodologies and use them as we would grazing animals. Here we go again with diversity diversity diversity...