Selecting strategies for rice stem borer management using the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP)

Crop Protection

Volumn 84, Issue , 2016, Pages 27-36

  Abdollahzadeh, Gholamhossein ^a   Damalas, Christos A ^b   Sharifzadeh, Mohammad Sharif ^a   Ahmadi Gorgi, Hossein ^c  

^a GORGAN UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES AND NATURAL RESOURCES   (Iran)

^b DEMOCRITUS UNIVERSITY OF THRACE   (Greece)

^c ISLAMIC AZAD UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Biological control; Chemical control; Cultural control; Pest control; Pheromone trapping

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL MODELING; ANALYTICAL HIERARCHY PROCESS; BIOLOGICAL CONTROL; CHEMICAL CONTROL; DECISION MAKING; INTEGRATED PEST MANAGEMENT; PADDY FIELD; PEST CONTROL; PHEROMONE TRAP; POLICY MAKING; RICE; STEM BORER; TRAPPING;

IRAN; MAZANDARAN; SARI;

CHILO SUPPRESSALIS;

EID: 84958980781     PISSN: 02612194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cropro.2016.02.004     Document Type: Article

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