Coffee plants host several herbivorous species, but only few are considered pests. Brazil is the largest coffee producer of world, and two key pests crop in country leaf miner Leucoptera coffeella berry borer Hypothenemus hampei . However, some regions or on specific conditions, species mites scales can also cause damage to plants. Conventional management relies chemical pesticides, it most com...

The location of smallholder dairies is generally a function of location of market demand, access to market, suitable production potential of the land, absence of serious disease, access to veterinary services, access to adapted dairy breeds, and availability of supplemental feeds. Traditionally, smallholder dairying has been represented by the number of cattle used for milk production reported ...

Soil energy pathways of different ecosystems using nematode trophic group analysis: a meta analysis Jie ZHAO 1,2,3,∗ and Deborah A. NEHER 2 1 Key Laboratory of Agro-ecological Processes in Subtropical Region, Institute of Subtropical Agriculture, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changsha, Hunan 410125, P.R. China 2 Department of Plant & Soil Science, University of Vermont, 63 Carrigan Drive, Burlin...

Between August and October 2000, a cross-sectional study was conducted in smallholder dairy farms in Mbale District, Uganda to assess the prevalence of ticks and tick-borne diseases under different grazing systems and agro-ecological zones and understand the circumstances under which farmers operated. A questionnaire was administered to obtain information on dairy farm circumstances and practic...

Tsetse transmitted animal trypanosomiasis (T&T) is a complex disease that directly and indirectly impacts Africa’s crop and livestock agriculture. This awareness has generated over the past decade a drive and political will towards solving the problem at the continental scale. In his paper the authors use state of he art spatial tools to study how, for West Africa, the variety of agro-ecologica...

a Department of Microbiology and Plant Biology, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, 73019, USA b Department of Plant Science, South Dakota State University, Brookings, SD, 57007, USA c Key Laboratory for Agro-ecological Processes in Subtropical Region, Institute of Subtropical Agriculture, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changsha 410125 Hunan, China d Huanjiang Observations and Research Station fo...

On the basis of comprehensive analysis on connotation, assessment methods and index system of river health, combined with the national river health assessment pilot project, river health assessment system is improved by increasing indicators and correcting their weights. The weights of ecological health and functional health of each zone in the national ecological function zoning are revised. A...