Bruggers, R. and Matee, J. and Miskell, J. and et al, . (1981) Reduction of bird damage to field crops in Eastern Africa with methiocarb. Tropical Pest Management, 27 (2). pp. 230-241.
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Abstract
In field trials in 1976-9 in East Africa, methiocarb was applied in edge, alternate band or spot treatments to protect ripening crops from birds. Rice yields in a trial in Somalia were similar in treated and untreated areas. Yield of treated rice in a seed production trials at Mordinle, Somalia was 1.5 t/ha compared with 0.16 t/ha in untreated areas. Bird damage to sorghum in Ethiopia was reduced by treatment. In Tanzania, treated wheat cv. Trophy yielded 1.125 t/ha compared with 0.639 t/ha in a reference field; yield of wheat cv. Kororo in the treated field was less than in the untreated due to wheat rust diseases. Wheat yields at the Simba/Poverty Gulch farm in Tanzania in 1976, '77 and '79 when methiocarb was used were 1.8 to 6.4 times greater than yields in 1978 when methiocarb was not used. Also at this farm in 1979, damage to rape seed (Brassica spp.) was not prevented by treatment; treatment of sunflowers only slowed down bird feeding. However, in Kenya, treatment prevented bird damage to sunflowers. Under certain farming conditions, methiocarb could be an economical method of reducing crop losses due to birds
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Author Affiliation: | Denver Wildlife Research Center, Denver, CO 80225, USA |
| Subjects: | Plant Protection |
| Divisions: | Sorghum |
| Depositing User: | Ms K Syamalamba |
| Date Deposited: | 08 Mar 2013 06:24 |
| Last Modified: | 08 Mar 2013 06:24 |
| URI: | http://eprints.icrisat.ac.in/id/eprint/9816 |
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