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Climate Resilience and Sustainability, Volume 3, Issue 3, August 2024.This study investigated the barriers faced by smallholder cassava farmers in adopting climate‐smart agriculture (CSA) practices in the Afigya Kwabre South District, Ghana. Key findings include: Smallholder cassava farmers implemented essential CSA practices, including mulching, mixed farming, crop diversification, and crop rotation.
Frank Baffour‐Ata +7 more
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, 2018 Scoring of AR23.1 and P40/1 cassava genotypes for phenotypic responses to cassava mealybug (CMB) infestation at 7, 14, 21, 28 and 35 dpi.
Molemi E. Rauwane (5675927) +4 more
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Of mites and men : agro-ecological factors affecting the neotropical predatory mite "Typhlodromalus aripo" DeLeon and its potential to control the cassava green mite in the mid-altitudes of Cameroon [PDF]
, 2006 Cassava (Manihot esculenta Crantz) is a main staple in many parts of Africa. In the processed form of gari1, it constitutes an essential income source for the rural women in certain areas.
Zundel, Christine
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Journal of Insect Behavior, 2001 Exochomus flaviventris Mader is considered to be the most active predator of the cassava mealybug Phenacoccus manihoti Matile–Ferrero in Central Africa. The response of experienced gravid female coccinellids to the odor of cassava plant (var. Zanaga), unparasitized mealybugs, plant–mealybug complex with or without feeding prey (parasitized or not), and
B. Le Rü, J. P. Makaya Makosso
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Cassava and soil fertility in intensifying smallholder farming systems of East Africa [PDF]
, 2009 Keywords: Cost-benefits, Crop management, Farming systems, Fertilizer, Food security, Generalizations, Income, Labour, Land pressure, Niche, Rainfall, Sub-Saharan Africa, System analysis, Yield gap. Cassava is an important crop in Africa.
Fermont, A.M., van
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Biology and ecology of Apanteles taragamae, a larval parasitoid of the cowpea pod borer Maruca vitrata [PDF]
, 2011 Maruca vitrata Fabricius is a key insect pest of cowpea in West Africa. Larvae of this moth can cause up to 80% of yield losses. The first classical biological control programme against M.
Dannon, A.E.
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, 2020 The encyrtid wasp Epidinocarsis lopezi (De Santis) has been introduced into Africa as a biological control agent against the cassava mealybug Phenacoccus manihoti Matile-Ferrero.
Sullivan, D.J., Neuenschwander, Peter
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, 2020 Joshi, Sunil, Pai, Sachin G., Deepthy, K.B., Ballal, Chandish R., Watson, Gillian W. (2020): The cassava mealybug, Phenacoccus manihoti Matile-Ferrero (Hemiptera: Coccomorpha: Pseudococcidae) arrives in India.
Joshi, Sunil +4 more
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CIAT's Tony Bellotti talks about the Cassava Mealybug in SE Asia
, 2015 CIAT entomologist Tony Bellotti talks about the Cassava Mealybug in SE Asia, and ways to deal with the spread of the pest and other emerging threats to cassava production in the ...
Bellotti, T.
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Controlling cassava mosaic virus and cassava mealybug in Sub-Saharan Africa
, 2017 Cassava was imported from Latin America some 300 years ago, and colonial governments in Africa used it as a famine-reserve crop. Over time cassava spread to over 40 countries in Sub-Sahara Africa, and Nigeria is now the largest cassava producer in the ...
Nweke, Felix I.
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