Kwara State University
James OJO
Designation: Lecturer I
Department: Crop Production
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| 1 | Cowpea field insect pests and integrated pest management techniques for cowpea cultivation in West Africa |
Developing methods to control the damage pest insects inflict to crop plants and distributing those solutions to producers are critical for efforts to ensure food security worldwide. An approach is outlined which integrates genomics and ecological data to provide a systems-wide understanding of how insect populations interact with the agroecosystem, that is used in tandem with a novel tactics to distribute educational data to growers in developing nations. The book chapter outlines the aforementioned concepts along with providing case studies where success has been seen in West Africa, as well as challenges facing the application of this approach in a more wide-spread program. This information is useful to ARS and university scientists and administration interested in developing reactive research programs that address user needs and distributing research developments to stakeholders. Technical Abstract: Cowpea is an important and major staple food crop in sub-Saharan Africa, especially in the dry savanna regions of West Africa. The crop provides a cash crop for farmers, which increases the incomes of farmers and traders thereby reducing to poverty in the region. Cowpea grain has a high nutritive value and provides a major source of protein for the growing human populations of both rural and urban areas of West Africa. Additionally, vegetative tissue from cowpea plants provide fodder for livestock. However, cultivated cowpea is severely attacked by a complex of insect pests at every stage of its development from pre-flowering stage through storage. These pests include aphids, thrips, pod borers, and pod sucking bugs that are the cause of … | https://doi.org/10.19103/as.2017.0023.11 | |||||