A biochemistry doctoral student at the University of Ibadan, Mojisola Karigidi, who is the founder of Moepelorse Bio Resources, has produced a bio-pesticide for preserving beans, pulses and grains.
Giving the background to her pet research product, Karigidi said “weevils that attack beans and maize in storage can destroy as much as 40 per cent of these crops, causing huge loss to farmers and traders.”Farmers and food crop traders who are mostly uneducated, she added, indiscriminately apply insecticides to these crops in storage to minimise or eliminate losses as much as possible.
That practice has serious health and environmental implications, so said the researcher while speaking with The Guardian. “So, as a biochemist working on medicinal plants, I decided to investigate and develop a plant-based bio-pesticide to get rid of insect pests that
