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Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Food Security Policy Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Food Security Policy Policy Research Brief 63 June 2018 Africa Great Lakes Region Coffee Support Program (AGLC) Mitigating Antestia Bug Damage and the Potato Taste Defect in Rwandan Coffee Andrew Gerard & Joseph Bigirimana Introduction Coffee production is a critical source of income for Key Findings hundreds of thousands of Rwandan families. How lucrative coffee production is, however, depends on the • The potato taste defect (PTD) reduces the value cost of producing coffee and the price farmers receive at of coffee in Africa’s Great Lakes Region, and in market. The coffee pest “antestia bug” and the potato doing so decreases farmer incomes. taste defect (PTD) have the potential to reduce farmer • The antestia bug is an East African coffee pest incomes. The antestia bug can significantly diminish the that can cause up to 40% of coffee cherry loss. volume of coffee cherries that can be sold; PTD reduces • While scholars have suggested that the antestia the value of coffee, market price available to farmers, bug may cause PTD, a new study presents and volume purchased by international buyers. experimental evidence that controlling antestia Researchers and practitioners have hypothesized a reduces PTD. relationship between the antestia bug and PTD for some • This study also shows that Fastac (10% alpha- time. However, a recent study by Bigirimana et al. cypermethrin) and organic pyrethrum-based provides evidence that it is possible to reduce the pesticides, when combined with pruning, are incidence of PTD by controlling antestia (Bouyjou, et al., effective at controlling antestia and reducing 1999; Bigirimana, et al., 2018). This brief summarizes PTD. these findings, and pairs them with data from the African • While the percentage of farmers using pesticide Great Lakes Region Coffee Support Program (AGLC) to has increased since 2015, 24.41% of farmers still suggest barriers to pesticide use, and potential avenues do not use pesticide. for improved antestia and PTD control. • Further, most farmers do not receive training on antestia control. Problem: Losses from the antestia bug and reduced • Policy recommendations to improve antestia and value from PTD PTD control can be found on pages 4-5. The antestia bug, Antestiopsis thunbergii (Gremelin) • (Hemiptera: Pentatomidae) is a harmful coffee pest with variants across East Africa. It feeds on coffee cherries at However, evidence suggests that the antestia bug does different stages of development and maturation as well cause or enable PTD in coffee. Potato taste is a flavor as on green shoots, leaves, and flower buds (Kirkpatrick, defect that makes coffee taste like raw potatoes. It occurs 1937). The antestia bug can cause up to 40% yield loss, in coffees from the Great Lakes Region of Africa (e.g., which can reduce smallholder farmers’ already slim Burundi, Rwanda, Democratic Republic of Congo, etc.). financial margins and make coffee production While in some cases it can be smelled in green coffee, it unprofitable (Gesmalla et al., 2016). Thus, even without is much more pungent in roasted coffee, so it is possible a connection between the antestia bug and PTD, the for affected coffee to make it through sorting and to antestia bug would be a highly damaging insect. roasting before being detected. environment characteristic of unpruned trees Potato taste defect diminishes the flavor experience of roasted coffee, reducing its value or causing it to be rejected by roasters and consumers. This has an economic effect on producers, because PTD can reduce the value of coffee paid to farmers and cooperatives if buyers discount the prices they will pay for the lots of coffee that they believe may be defective or purchase smaller volumes of Rwandan coffee than they would otherwise. Beyond this, international buyers may more generally reduce prices they are willing to pay for Rwandan coffee, whether or not there is specific evidence of PTD. For example, one exporter has calculated a PTD “discount” that may lower the price of all Rwandan coffee on the world market (Smith, 2014). Image 1: Antestia bug, Antestiopsis thunbergii If reduced trust in the quality of Rwandan coffee causes (Gremelin) (Hemiptera: Pentatomidae). Photo: buyers to offer lower prices or hesitate to purchase Bigirimana. Rwandan coffee, improving prices and increasing farmer incomes requires reducing the impact of antestia as well (Bigirimana, et al., 2012). Second, it assessed the as PTD. relationship between these treatments and the occurrence of PTD in coffee using laboratory and field tests. The Studies have suggested that the presence of PTD in pesticides tested in the trials were: 1) Confidor (17.8% coffee is associated with insect damage, especially imidacloprid); 2) Fastac (10% alpha-cypermethrin); 3) damage from the antestia bug, however two important Pyrethrum 5EW (5% pyrethrins), 4) Pyrethrum EWC questions remain to be answered, and are the focus of (2.19% pyrethrins and 10% sesame) and 5) Agroblaster this brief (Bouyjou et al., 1999; GKI, 2014; Jackels et al., (8% pyrethrins). Of these, Confidor was historically the 2014). most commonly used pesticide in Rwanda, however in recent years Fastac has been more commonly used Question 1: Can controlling the antestia bug reduce the (CEPAR, 2018). In laboratory bioassays, pesticides incidence of PTD? were applied to groups of 15 bugs placed in a petri dish Question 2: If so, how can farmers better control using a hand sprayer. Field trials were conducted in three antestia? major coffee growing regions of Rwanda: Rubona, Gakenke and Kirehe. Findings on antestia and PTD In 2014-2015, the Rwanda Agriculture Board (RAB) Results for antestia bug mortality conducted an experiment to determine whether the Significant differences were found among pesticides on antestia bug caused PTD, and what antestia control the percentage of antestia bugs killed both in laboratory methods were most effective. They conducted this and field conditions. The percent mortality was higher research using funding from the Potato Taste Challenge for pyrethroid, Fastac (Alpha-cypermethrin), and Prize, which was organized by the Alliance for Coffee pyrethrins (Pyrethrum 5EW and Pyrethrum EWC + Excellence and the Global Knowledge Initiative. Joseph Sesame) than the percent mortality for Confidor. Bigirimana and colleagues at Michigan State University Mortality from Confidor increased over time, but still completed this project with support from AGLC. provided a lower mortality rate than Pyrethrum 5EW and This study first evaluated the effectiveness of integrated Agroblaster 12 hours post-treatment. At the field level, pest management using pruning alone or in combination pruning alone registered statistically higher insect with several commercially available pesticides against a mortality than unpruned coffee trees without pesticide field population of antestia bugs. Previous research had application (i.e., the control plots). shown that pruning was effective in reducing antestia populations because antestia prefer a shaded, damp 2 Policy Research Brief 63 Results for potato taste defect To test the relationship between antestia and PTD, coffee coffee trees resulted in the lowest PTD and the control cherries were harvested from treatment and control plots had the highest incidence (about 12 times that of Fastac and sensory tested for PTD. Three kilograms of ripe spraying in pruned plots). Pruned plots treated with cherries were collected from each test plot six months Fastac or Pyrethrum 5EW had the lowest PTD incidence after spraying. Cherries were collected over a one-month on average, but plots sprayed with Pyrethrum 5EW had period and were hand pulped, wet processed, and dried. twice the PTD incidence of those treated with Fastac. Each sample was roasted and sensory tested or “cupped,” Additionally, the control had twice the PTD incidence of with the primary objective being to detect whether pruning alone, which had the same PTD incidence as samples had or did not have PTD. pruned plots treated with Confidor (Fig. 1) Significant differences in PTD incidence were observed among treatments. Treatment with Fastac in pruned Figure 1: Percent of samples with PTD by treatment type (P = pruning) 14 11.84 12 10 9.02 8 6.50 6.20 6 % of samples with PTD samples % of 4 3.47 1.97 2 1.03 0 No Prun P & P & No P & Confi P & Pyre. P & Pyre. P & (P) & No Agrobl. Pest. EWC 5EW Fastac Pest Treatments In this study, PTD was correlated with antestia density what is the status of farmer engagement in antestia and the extent of damage caused by antestia. These control? Evidence on the status of antestia and PTD findings are compatible with recent tests showing a knowledge and control comes from a survey of 1,024 correlation between PTD and low-density green coffee, farmers taken following the 2015 season, as well as which is often caused by insect damage (Montenegro, follow-on surveys of ½ of this sample (512 farmers) after 2015). The study suggests that pruning combined with the 2016 and 2017 seasons. Surveys were conducted in pesticide application—especially Fastac and other the AGLC sample districts of Gakenke, Huye, Kirehe, pyrethrum-based pesticides—provides better control of and Rutsiro. A summary of findings is as follows. antestia bug and significantly reduces PTD compared to either pruning or pesticide alone. 1. Training on antestia control: An important influence on farmers’ ability to control antestia Findings on pesticide availability and use is knowledge about the best practices used to control it. In the AGLC sample, few farmers had If the antestia bug causes PTD, and we have evidence of received training on controlling antestia. which pesticides are promising for controlling antestia, Percentages of farmers who had received 3 Policy Research Brief 63 training range between approximately 10-20% across the three years of the AGLC project. Figure 2: Percent of farmers using any According to data from the baseline survey, pesticide vs. free pesticide cooperative membership increases the 80 likelihood of receiving training on antestia 78 75.59 control, with cooperative members substantially 76 74.02 more likely to receive training than non- 74 cooperative members.
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