The ferocious pest is giving farmers in sugarcane growing areas sleepless nights.

Traders hawk sugarcane cutting to commuters in a vehicle at Keumbu Market along Kisii Nairobi Highway. Keumbu Market is one famous market stocked with farm produce from local farmers to passengers en-route to Nairobi and other towns. A small stack of sugarcane retails here at Sh20. [Photos Sammy Omingo/standard]

Yellow aphids —a ferocious pest — are giving farmers in sugarcane growing areas sleepless nights. The sugarcane aphid which also attacks sorghum, is capable of causing substantial damage to the crop if left unmanaged.