Plant-Based Products as Control Agents of Stored-Product Insect Pests in the Tropics

Progress in Food Preservation

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 581-601

  Ogendo, Joshua O ^a   Deng, Arop L ^a   Birech, Rhoda J ^a   Bett, Philip K ^a  

^a EGERTON UNIVERSITY   (Kenya)

Author keywords

Botanical pesticides; Post harvest losses; Stored product insect pests; Subsistence agriculture

Indexed keywords

EID: 84887205756     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781119962045.ch27     Document Type: Chapter

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