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Biological Control of Food Pests

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Title Biological Control of Food Pests
 
Creator CGIAR Secretariat
Keyser, Jack
 
Description News release announcing that the Nigeria-based International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) has achieved major success in the biological control of one damaging African food peat, and made progress towards controlling another. IITA's success in controlling the cassava mealybug has benefitted more than 200 million Africans for whom cassava is a staple food. The benefit:cost ratio of the cassava mealybug program has been calculated at 149:1--$149 worth of food saved for every $1 of research or development invested.
 
Date 1991-10-01
1991-10-01T00:00:01Z
1991-10-01T00:00:01Z
 
Type Internal Document
 
Identifier https://hdl.handle.net/10947/200
 
Language en
 
Rights Open Access
 
Format application/pdf