Egyptian researcher Yasser Shabana, head of the plant diseases department at the Faculty of Agriculture at the Egyptian University of Mansoura and his scientific team, recently invented the first compound in the world capable of eliminating the destructive haloc lesion - a parasitic floral plant that follows the al-Jafili family or the halukia - of the bean crop 100%.
The researcher said, "The new compound works dynamically inside the soil, where it traces the haluk seeds, and attacks them until they are completely eliminated, before they approach the roots of the faba bean."
For many years, various countries have been conducting various tests to combat haloc, including chemical and natural control methods, but none of these experiments has achieved sufficient control per se. Successful attempts in Egypt emphasized the importance of providing training, in which farmers and technical experts in the field participate, in the vital environmental control of harmful plants.
Shabana told the Future Observatory of the Dubai Future Foundation that he and his research team had reached "the production of a granular biocide for combating bean halide for the first time in Egypt and the world," explaining that "the fungus used in the production of biocides has been specialized solely on bean mortality only", stressing that " "The pesticide did not cause any injuries to other crops, and it will not have any harm to the existing plant life, which is already exposed to it in its natural environment."