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Due to the increasing resistance of pests chemical insecticides and negative consequences arising from use chemicals, such as environmental contamination health hazards, alternative methods control need be studied. In nature, essential oils play an important role in protecting plants antibacterials, antivirals, antifungals, insecticides, also against herbivores by reducing their appetite for pl...

Powdered dry root bark of Securidaca longepedunculata was mixed with maize and cowpea and effectively reduced the numbers of Sitophilus zeamais and Callosobruchus maculatus emerging from these commodities, respectively, more than 9 months after treatment. This effect was reciprocated in grain treated with a methanol extract of the root bark, indicating that compounds were present that were ovip...

This paper describes the design process of Plant Diseases and Insect Pests Information Markup Language that is used in Plant Diseases and Insect Pests Information Database of Installation Agriculture Information Platform. After analyzing and defining the basic comprising elements of plant diseases and insect pests information, the XMLSchema of Plant Diseases and Insect Pests Information Markup ...

Soil arthropod pests are those which live in the soil and cause economic loss to humans. Root maggots, wireworms, whitegrubs, termites and ants are important soil pests. Insecticides are used for the management of these pests and the buffering capacity of soil makes difficult for these pests to be managed and warrants high concentration of pesticides with repeated applications. This increases t...

Common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris) production and storage are limited by numerous constraints. Insect pests often the most destructive. However, resource-constrained smallholders in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) do little to manage pests. Where farmers use a control strategy, it typically relies on chemical pesticides, which have adverse effects wildlife, crop pollinators, natural enemies, mammals, de...