Achievements and Highlights-Crop Borers

Abstract

1. Goal The current project was initiated in 1980 with the ultimate goal "f increasing production of food cereals and legumes by resource-poor, small-scale farmers in rural Africa through improved insect pest management.

2. Strategy To achieve this goal, the project activities have aimed at developing such strategies for integrated pest management (If'M) as would· be environmentally safe and technically as well as socio-economically feasible for the small farmer . 2. Strategy To achieve this goal, the project activities have aimed at developing such strategies for integrated pest manage~ ment (If'M) as would· be environmentally safe and technically as well as socio-economically feasible for the small farmer .

3. Crops and pests studied The crops studied are sorghum, maize and cowpea. The insect pests taken up for this project are Chilo partellus and other borers on sorghum and maize, and Maruca tes tulalis on cowpea.

4. Population studies (i) Methodology has been developed and standardised for monitoring the populations of the borers through·periodical sampling for borer larvae and pupae, and by pheromonal trapping of adult male!) using.......