An integrated management of cereal stemborers and striga weed in a maize- based cropping system in Africa
Khan, Z.R.
An integrated management of cereal stemborers and striga weed in a maize- based cropping system in Africa - Addis Ababa (Ethiopia) CIMMYT|EARO : 1999 - p. 190-193 - Printed
Maize provides staple food for millions of people in Africa. The lepidopterous stemborers such as Chilo partellus and Busseola fusca are major insect pests causing devastating yield losses. Field trials in Kenya found that the forage grasses, Pennisetum purpureum
English
92-9146-065-6
Busseola fusca
Chilo partellus
Cropping systems
Desmodium uncinatum
Kenya
Maize
Melinis minutiflora
Pennisetum purpureum
Striga hermonthica
Soil fertility
CIMMYT
633.15 / EAS No. 6
An integrated management of cereal stemborers and striga weed in a maize- based cropping system in Africa - Addis Ababa (Ethiopia) CIMMYT|EARO : 1999 - p. 190-193 - Printed
Maize provides staple food for millions of people in Africa. The lepidopterous stemborers such as Chilo partellus and Busseola fusca are major insect pests causing devastating yield losses. Field trials in Kenya found that the forage grasses, Pennisetum purpureum
English
92-9146-065-6
Busseola fusca
Chilo partellus
Cropping systems
Desmodium uncinatum
Kenya
Maize
Melinis minutiflora
Pennisetum purpureum
Striga hermonthica
Soil fertility
CIMMYT
633.15 / EAS No. 6