Field-ready protocol technologies for tropical agriculture.
We build applied crop-health platforms for complex pest and disease problems in tropical agriculture.
The current platform group includes SaferSHIELD, MUSA ToolBox, Coconut ToolBox, SaferSOIL, and Great African Snail ToolBox. Each platform is developed as a complete farmer protocol, combining treatment materials, application tools, field procedures, timing, monitoring steps, and recovery support where needed.
Our platforms are built for field use, not as standalone product lists. The aim is to give farmers, estates, institutions, and development partners practical systems that can be test-driven, repeated, and scaled.
SaferSHIELD
SaferSHIELD is the above-rhizosphere pest and pathogen suppression platform. It is focused on crop-health problems affecting leaves, stems, fruit, crowns, meristems, vascular tissues, and other above-ground plant systems.
It is designed for situations where single-product treatments are not enough and where the farmer needs a complete field method to arrest active pest or disease pressure, suppress recurrence, and support crop recovery.
Current SaferSHIELD crop programs include SaferSHIELD Cocoa, SaferSHIELD Peppers, and SaferSHIELD Papaya.
SaferSHIELD Cocoa
Focused on cocoa disease complexes including witches’ broom, black pod, frosty pod, anthracnose, vascular dieback, and related fungal disease pressure.
SaferSHIELD Peppers
Focused on pepper production problems including broad mites, foliar disease pressure, virus-related crop decline, and crop recovery.
SaferSHIELD Papaya
Focused on papaya disease and recovery problems including anthracnose, foliar disease pressure, virus-related crop decline, and crop recovery.
Development status: Early Production Prototyping (ENP), with ARREST, SUPPRESS and CONTROL functions in process.
MUSA ToolBox
MUSA ToolBox is the banana and plantain protocol platform.
It is designed for complex banana and plantain production problems, including vascular wilts, Ralstonia spp., Fusarium spp., Sigatoka, virus-related pressure including BBTV, borers, nematodes, and production recovery.
The platform combines treatment methods, application tools, timing, monitoring, and farmer-use procedures into practical protocols for field deployment.
Development status: Early Production Prototyping (ENP), with ARREST, SUPPRESS and CONTROL functions in process.
Selected aspects have patent applications pending.
Coconut ToolBox
Coconut ToolBox is the coconut protocol platform for pest, disease, decline, meristem, root-zone, and recovery complexes.
It is designed for coconut production problems including mites, red ring nematodes, coconut beetles, phytoplasma-linked decline, meristem and heart attack, palm decline, root stress, and recovery failure.
Current work includes ARREST, SUPPRESS and CONTROL functions being built and tested in Exploratory Prototyping (EXP).
Development status: Exploratory Prototyping (EXP), in process.
Selected aspects have patent applications pending.
SaferSOIL
SaferSOIL is the at-rhizosphere and below-rhizosphere suppression and recovery platform.
It is focused on soil pressure, root-zone stress, reinfection risk, soil-borne pathogens, nematodes, microbial balance, biological suppression, and recovery support.
SaferSOIL supports wider crop-health protocols by improving the biological and functional condition of the root zone.
Development status: Exploratory Prototyping (EXP), in process.
Great African Snail ToolBox
Great African Snail ToolBox is an early-stage field protocol platform for rapid intervention and suppression of Great African Snail pressure.
The current focus is on practical ARREST and SUPPRESS functions that can reduce immediate field pressure and support farmer response.
Development status: Exploratory Prototyping (EXP), in process.
Platform Development
Each platform moves through staged development.
Exploratory Prototyping (EXP) builds and verifies the complete farmer protocol.
Early Production Prototyping (ENP) test-drives the protocol with partners under real production conditions, using the same tools, timing, and procedures farmers would actually use.
Late-Stage Production Prototyping (LNP) prepares the protocol for wider rollout, repeat use, and larger deployment programs.
Work With Us
We work with farmers, estates, institutions, agronomists, development partners, and regional agencies to test-drive and deploy scalable crop-health protocols.
For partnership discussions, field programs, or institutional collaboration, use the Contact page.