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Measuring the economic value of redistributing parasitoids for the control of the maize stemborer Busseola fusca Fuller (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) in Kenya

Kipkoech, Anderson Kipruto; Schulthess, Fritz; Yabann, … - In: African Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics 04 (2010) 2

.5% when pesticides were used to control stemborers. The benefit-cost ratio after the establishment of the parasitoids ranged … parasitoids indigenous to Africa for the control of African stemborers. Because the benefits of biological control are positively …

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Measuring the economic value of redistributing parasitoids for the control of the maize stemborer Busseola fusca Fuller (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) in Kenya

Kipkoech, Anderson Kipruto; Schulthess, Fritz; Yabann, … - In: Journal of Cooperatives 04 (2010) 2

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The economic value of releasing parasitoid for the control of maize stemborers in East and Southern Africa

Kipkoech, Anderson Kipruto; Schulthess, Fritz; Yabann, … - International Association of Agricultural Economists - IAAE - 2009

The braconid larval parasitoid Cotesia flavipes Cameron was introduced from Asia into East and Southern African region starting in 1993 to control the invasive exotic maize stemborer Chilo partellus (Swinhoe) (Lepidoptera: Crambidae). A quasi-experiment was constructed using farmers that applied...

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Classification and influence of agricultural information on striga and stemborer control in Suba and Vihiga Districts, Kenya

Njuguna, Esther M.; Amudavi, David Mulama; Khan, Zeyaur R. - African Association of Agricultural Economists - AAAE - 2008

on striga and/or stemborers control technologies and factors that influence acquisition of such information in Western …

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