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Training workshop report on good agricultural practices for the production and conservation of seed potato in the West, Adamawa, and Northwest regions. Workshop report. by Fornkwa, V., Harahagazwe, D., Adamu, I., Tiozang, E., Apan, A., Ngwa, L., Djatsa, E., Woulbe, C., Mafouo, H., Anagho, R.

“…Field demonstrations were equally carried out during which participants were drilled on the identification of pests and diseases, positive and negative selection, dehaulming, phytosanitary treatment, and the proper handling of phytosanitary products, amongst others. …”
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Farming practices, varietal preferences, and land suitability analyses for yam production in Eastern D.R. Congo: implications for breeding initiatives and food sovereignty by Mondo, J., Chuma, G.B., Matiti, H.M., Balezi, A.Z., Kihye, J.B., Ayagirwe, R., Agre, A.P., Banda, V.B., Adebola, P.O., Asfaw, A.

“…Soil depletion (68.3%), limited access to high-quality seeds (54.5%), youth disengagement in yam value chain (50.3%), insect pests (17.9%), and short tuber shelf-life (65.8%) were, respectively, the main ecological, agronomic, sociocultural, biological, and tuber quality factors hindering yam production in eastern DRC. …”
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Baseline Evaluation of the Impact of E-Verification on Counterfeit Agricultural Inputs and Technology Adoption in Uganda: Community Listing Exercise by International Food Policy Research Institute

“…This depresses farm incomes and contributes to low agricultural productivity that continues to be hampered by poor agronomic practices, low quality germplasm, declining soil fertility, and losses due to pests, disease, and postharvest handling practices. …”
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Evaluating the welfare effects of nonfarm enterprises on rural households in Papua New Guinea by Schmidt, Emily, Rosenbach, Gracie, Mueller, Valerie

“…The analysis reported on here evaluates the importance of nonfarm employment in rural areas in PNG in diversifying risk to household welfare (associated with weather shocks, crop pests and diseases, agricultural price fluctuations, etc.), in smoothing seasonal income fluctuations, and in absorbing excess labor in households with limited agricultural resources. …”
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Effects of Intercropping ‘Orange-Fleshed’ Sweetpotato with Onion on the Level of Weevil Damage by Kapalamula, C.

“…Unavailability of acceptable improved varieties, high incidence of pests and diseases, and poor cultural practices are also the main causes of low yields. …”
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Willingness to pay for a new biopesticide to control mango fruit flies by Tassembedo, Boureima, Ouedraogo, Mathieu, Nebie, Karim, Sinzogan, Antonio Alain Coffi, Toe, Patrice

“…Despite the threat posed by fruit flies to the mango industry, no studies in Burkina Faso have examined the willingness to pay for methods to control these pests. The novelty of this research is in its application of the Cragg Double-Hurdle analytical model in an ex-ante setting for a new biopesticide. …”
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From crossbreeding to biotechnology-facilitated improvement of banana and plantain by Ortíz, R., Swennen, Rony L.

“…Generating hybrids combining host plant resistance to pathogens and pests, short growth cycles and height, high fruit yield, parthenocarpy, and desired quality from the cultivars remains a challenge for Musa crossbreeding, which started about one century ago in Trinidad. …”
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Cassava investment in Africa: taking inventory of initiatives in Africa in view of positioning cassava as a strategic commodity by Wambo, A., Mahungu, N.M., Kendenga, T., O'Brien, E.

“…Such research is multifaceted, and includes, e.g. efforts to improve cassava's resistance to pests and diseases, which have ravaged the crops in most of Africa in the past; increase drought tolerance; increase nutritional value; increase starch levels for industrial uses; bulking of planting material; and building community capacity in terms of planting and maintenance of cassava. …”
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Mango cultivation in Benin by Vayssières, Jean-François, Sinzogan, A.A.C., Adandonon, A., Coulibaly, O., Bokonon-Ganta, A.H.

“…Mango-infesting fruit flies as Ceratitis cosyra and Bactrocera invadens (Diptera Tephritidae) became the target pests in Benin as in other West African countries. …”
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Breeding early and extra-early maize for resistance to biotic and abiotic stresses in sub-Saharan Africa by Badu-Apraku, Baffour, Fakorede, M.A.B.

“…Benth. low soil N, drought, diseases, and pests. The International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA), in collaboration with member countries of the West and Central Africa Collaborative Maize Network (WECAMAN), has developed early and extraearly maturing germplasm with tolerance or resistance to Striga, drought, and low soil N. tolerance/resistance to the stresses have been increased in the germplasm through population improvement and effective screening methods. …”
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Cassava production and processing in the Democratic Republic of Congo: COSCA working paper, No 22 by Nweke, F., Lutete, D., Dixon, A., Ugwu, B., Ajobo, O., Kalombo, N., Bukaka, B.

“…The available landraces had low genetic potential for root yield as most of them were susceptible to cassava plant pests/diseases especially African cassava mosaic disease. …”
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Diversity of Meloidogyne spp. from peri-urban areas of sub-Saharan Africa and their genetic similarity with populations from the Latin America by Santos, M.F. dos, Silva Mattos, V. da, Monteiro, J.M., Almeida, M.R., Jorge, A.S., Cares, J.E., Castagnone-Sereno, P., Coyne, D., Carneiro, R.M.

“…These highly intensive systems are characterized by high levels of pests and diseases and an excessive use of synthetic pesticides to reduce their population densities. …”
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Evaluación de plagas de verano en la ciudad de San Marcos (Carazo, Nicaragua) en dos sistemas de manejo by González Castillo, M.Y.

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LUST for mango: quantitative description of land use systems and technology for mango in Guanacaste, Costa Rica (Part A). Mango yields in relation to different management aspects -... by Ligt, L. de

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Aportes de productores y científicos al entendimiento de la agregación de Hypothenemus hampei en Chiapas, México by Jarquín Gálvez, R., Jiménez Sánchez, L., Guharay, F., Barrera, J.F.

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Avaliaçao de óleos vegetais de diferentes características secantes sobre Bemisia tabaci, em melao by Paula Neto, F.L. de, Bleicher, E.

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Consideraciones epidemiológicas para el manejo de la marchitez por Fusarium (Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. cubense) del banano en la región central del Perú by Román Jeri, Carlos H.

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Life cycle of Agriotes wireworms and their effect in maize cultivation : from a Swedish perspective by Stolpe Nordin, Ellen

Körskador inom bekämpningsområde mot granbarkborre i Västernorrlands län by Edlund, Liza, Johansson, Johanna

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Sköldlöss i orkidéodling : biologi, skadebild, förekomst och bekämpningsmetoder by Björn, Oscar