The study evaluated the performance of polypropylene bag (PP), polyethylene drum (PD), silo tank (PST), and super grain (SGB) on preserving maize quality. trials were conducted on-station on-farm. Insect density, damage, weight loss, moisture content determined monthly for six months trials. For on-farm, insect density damage assessed every two eight months, acceptability test was performed aft...

Simple grazing models with two herbivores are used to assess the effects of pasture pests on stability and productivity of continously-growing pastures. Algebraic and graphical methods are also presented for estimating losses from pasture pests at different stocking rates directly, from data on productivity/stocking rate relationships. Pests are considered as competing grazing herbivores and de...

In Burkina Faso, the availability of Acacia macrostachya “Zamnè” seeds throughout year is threatened by attacks pests. So, effectiveness airtight (hermetic) storage for preservation these was evaluated using 20-litre plastic jars and 50 kg PICS bags as hermetic containers with polypropylene controls. Seeds (17.5 kg) were stored in each devices six months under ambient conditions laboratory. The...

Wheat is one of the major cereal crops with annual global production over 600 MT from about 200 M hectares (FAO 2012). The cultivation of wheat started about 10,000 years ago as part of the Neolithic revolution which state a transition from hunting and gathering of food to settle agriculture. Earlier cultivated forms of wheat were diploid (einkorn) and tetraploid (emmer) with known initial orig...

Name: Citrus blight disease Taxonomic position: Unknown Common names: Young tree decline, sandhill decline, roadside decline, rough lemon decline (English) Declinamiento, marchitamiento repentino (Spanish) Declinio (Portuguese) Notes on taxonomy and nomenclature: Typical citrus blight is the disease known in Florida (USA). More or less similar diseases have been described from other parts of th...

Current GM crops are thus far the almost exclusive domain of herbicide and insect resistance traits. The Bt toxins used for insect control have a narrow specificity against lepidopteran and coleopteran pests only. Yet, aphids and thrips are highly important pests worldwide, causing severe direct losses and transmitting devastating viruses such as Tomato Spotted Wilt Virus (TSWV). So far, few us...

Pest detection and identification of diseases in agricultural crops is essential to ensure good productivity. The productivity of plants will reduce due to diseases and presence of pests. Image processing can be used to identify the pests and thereby can reduce the use of pesticides. Image processing involves capturing the image and applying various preprocessing techniques and detect the pest ...

the adoption of integrated pest management (ipm) strategy by farmers of bathinda cotton belt of punjab, india resulted in reduction of insecticidal applications. there was 3-4 times reduction in insecticidal applications in ipm villages (4.86-5.33) over the non-ipm villages (15.16-18.12). a general trend of reduced insecticidal applications of both conventional as well as new insecticides, in i...

ozone is a powerful oxidant capable of killing insects and microorganisms and has been used in the food processing industry in the gaseous and aqueous states. in a laboratory study, the susceptibility of immature stages of an important stored-product pest, the indian meal moth, plodia interpunctella hubner to ozonated water was investigated. ozone was applied in aqueous form at four concentrati...

In Florida, horses have numerous arthropod pests. Most of these pests are considered external parasites as their attack on the horse is principally external, as opposed to internal parasites such as “worms” or nematodes and bots. The common external parasites include filth flies such as non-biting house flies and biting stable flies and occasionally horn flies, the numerous other blood-feeding ...