ARC- Plant Health and Protection

Mobile plant health clinic
As part of the ARC’s farmer support programme, a panel-van was converted into a mobile plant health clinic.

The ARC-PHP, located in Roodeplaat northeast of Pretoria and at several strategic areas around South Africa, has the mandate to provide extensive and specialist knowledge of the organisms that threaten agricultural crops and plants in natural environments The mobile clinic is furnished with basic equipment and accessories to enable sci-entists to facilitate plant health diagnostic ser-vices to small holder farmers on site.