This consultancy trip was conducted from 19 to 23 October 2021 at the request and fully organized by TPC to better understand the current status of the Yellow Sugarcane Aphid (YSA) which continuesto be the major pest in the estate with high levels of infestation observed since 2016 and resulting in significant yield losses. TPC's main queries being:• The effective efficacity of numerously predators which hadn't managed to control YSA after 5 years• The need to devise alternative and more sustainable control measures to broad spectrum insecticides being used.