Aflatoxin and the effective solution

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04:26:00

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2021

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Being a dangerous component that is harmful to life, aflatoxins in the crops such as maize, ground nuts can be prevented using different technoogies. As a poison produced by afungus that reside in soil and decaying matter on ground, aflatoxin attcks crops while in field or storage. As it affects health and production in livestock, contaminated crops of aflatoxin should be destroyed to prevent it from harming.

Aflatoxin management

First, eat a healthy and diversified diet to prevent aflatoxins and include vegetables, fruits and other food that are less affected i the diet as well. Equally, farmers should follow good agricultural practices to reduce conatmination and keep crops safe and  sort crops to remove immature pods and damage cobs and prevent grains from contact with soil.
Store all crops in cool and dry place, safe from rain and free from pests and apply 10kg of aflasafe in a hectare 2-3 weeks to flowering for maize and 30-45 days after planting ground nuts.
Sequence from Sequence to Description
00:0000:10Aflatoxin is a poison produced by fungus that reside in soil.
00:1100:50It attacks crops while in field or in storage.
00:5100:59Contaminated crops of aflatoxin should be destroyed.
01:0001:11Aflatoxin affect health and production in livestock.
01:1202:01Eat a healthy and diversified diet including vegetables, fruits.
02:0202:20Farmers should follow good agricultural proctices.
02:2102:33Sort crops to remove immature pods and damaged cobs.
02:3402:41Store all crops in cool and dry place.
02:4203:14Apply aflasafe in soils to cotrol aflatoxins.
03:1504:26Summary

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