Assessment of grain loss due to insect pest during storage for small-scale farmers of Kebbi

Autor:	Iliyasu Mohammed Utono
Rok vydání:	2013
Předmět:	Insect pest Grain weight biology Agronomy fungi food and beverages Grain damage Grain storage Sorghum biology.organism_classification
Zdroj:	IOSR Journal of Agriculture and Veterinary Science. 3:38-50
ISSN:	2319-2380 2319-2372
Popis:	Grain storage losses due to insect pests have been a serious problem threatens the livelihood of small-scale farmers. Sampling and inspection of grain stores provide important information that is useful in identifying and managing insects problems associated with grain storage. A survey of sampling farmers' grain stores was conducted in three geo-political regions (Central, North and South) of Kebbi state to gain a better understanding of the insect pest species and the impending associated problems they cause in farmers grain stores, and to help farmers with new approach (VDS) for assessing grain damage by themselves and compare the precision of the new approach with conventional approach in assessing grain weight loss. The findings of this research indicate that the VDS method is comparable (r 2 = 0.76; t=14.19, df=147, p
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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