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Pest Losses and Control of Damage on Sorghum in Developing Countries - The Realities and the Myths

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Title Pest Losses and Control of Damage on Sorghum in Developing Countries - The Realities and the Myths
 
Creator Davies, J C
 
Subject Sorghum
 
Description There have been significant advances in sorghum
research and considerable increases in world
sorghum grain production and yield in the past
decade. However, the sobering fact 1s that, with
the notable exception of India, there has been
only a minimal improvement in overall production
from the countries where sorghum is used
primarily in human food (Kanwar and Ryan 1976)
and indications are that production trends will be
negative before long in many countries (Ryan,
rsonal communication). This is a,slruation that
an be ignored only at our peril. It is a situation for v which something can be done, but only if we take
an objective look at our ideas-many of which are
preconceived. We must realize that the solutions
proposed and results obtained in the sorghum
research field in developed countries, must be
examined very critically before being adopted or
utilized as blueprints for attacking the serious and
urgent problems of increasing sorghum production,
particularly in Africa. I make no apology.
therefore, for 'slanting' my remarks today on
entomology, towards the developing world situation.
Even a brief scan of the sorghum literature
shows that the developed world is exceptionally
well catered for, both by the amount and quality of
information being produced on sorghum in all
scientific disciplines, including entomology.
However, I suspect that in the 10 years since the
last sorghum symposium, the number of research
nd development workers, who are able to devote b eir full time to the sorghum crop in Africa and
the developing world has not increased to anywhere
near the extent needed, to cope with the
well documented problems of feeding their rapidly
expanding populations. Indeed the number of
sorghum research workers in the developing
world may well have decreased!
 
Date 1982
 
Type Conference or Workshop Item
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
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Identifier http://oar.icrisat.org/4077/1/CP_80.pdf
Davies, J C (1982) Pest Losses and Control of Damage on Sorghum in Developing Countries - The Realities and the Myths. In: Sorghum In the Eighties Proceedings of the lnternational Syrnposlum on Sorghum, 2-7 November 1981, Patancheru. A P lndla.