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Table 1 Description of the chemical control treatments applied in the field trials in Kenya, Tanzania and Ethiopia

From: Experimental prosopis management practices and grassland restoration in three Eastern African countries

Country

County/region

Basal bark treatment

Cut stump treatment

Kenya

Baringo

Triclon (480 g/l Triclopyr as butoxyl ethyl ester), mixed with diesel (2L Triclon/100L diesel); applied with knapsack sprayer

Kaput 100 gel (50 g/kg Picloram as potassium salt and 50 g/kg triclopyr as triethylamine salt)

Tanzania

Kilimanjaro

Triclon (undiluted), repeated once on regreening trees (mixed with diesel (10 L Triclon/100 L diesel); applied with low pressure hand sprayer, combined with a brush application on small trees

Triclon (undiluted), repeated once on resprouting rootstocks

Ethiopia

Afar

Triclon, same application as in Kenya

Kaput 100 gel

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CABI Agriculture and Bioscience

ISSN: 2662-4044