Termite abundance and damage in traditional maize-cassava intercrops in southwestern Nigeria

Insect Science and its Application

Volumn 17, Issue 3-4, 1997, Pages 315-321

  Umeh, V C ^a,b   Ivbijaro, M F ^a  

^a International Crops Research Institute for the Semi Arid Tropics (ICRISAT)   (Mali)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IBADAN   (Nigeria)

Author keywords

Cassava; Farm sanitation; Macrotermes nigeriensis; Maize damage; Microtermes

Indexed keywords

EID: 0041943348     PISSN: 01919040     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/s1742758400019123     Document Type: Article

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