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dc.contributor.authorAkankunda, Murungi Meron
dc.date.accessioned2020-01-10T06:10:19Z
dc.date.available2020-01-10T06:10:19Z
dc.date.issued2019
dc.identifier.citationAkankunda, M.M. (2019). Effect of varying doses of Malathion on population dynamics of Tophilus zeamais (maize weevil) on stored maize and sorghum grain. Undergraduate diisertation. Makerere Universityen_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12281/8309
dc.descriptionA special project report submitted to the Department of Agricultural Production in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the award of Bachelor of Science degree in Agriculture of Makerere Universityen_US
dc.description.abstractMaize and sorghum are the major staple food cereal crops in Africa (CIMMYT, 2002; Ali et al., 2011). Sorghum is the fifth most important cereal crop in the world after maize, rice, wheat and barley. It staple for over 500 million resource-poor people in marginal environments (Sher et al., 2013). On average, 1,500,000 MT (UBOS, 2007) is estimated as the annual maize production in Uganda. Maize is the most highly cultivated cereal crop. Statistics from the Uganda National Housing Survey (UNHS) of 2005/6 showing that maize was cultivated by about 86% of the 4.2 million agricultural households in Uganda. Furthermore, Maize is an important staple food for the urban poor, and is the primary food source in institutions such as schools, prisons, military and the police (UNDP Value Chain Report, 2010). Besides being food for human consumption, maize is an important ingredient in livestock and poultry feeds. It is also a highly preferred starch, used in the fermentation of local non formal alcoholic brews. Maize originally a new world’s crop was introduced in Uganda in 1861(Sprague, 1987) and by 1900 was already an established crop (Ministry of Agriculture 1988). The World Bank estimates that there are about 1.3 million hectares of land suitable for maize production in Uganda (World Bank, July 1984 p.49)en_US
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherMakerere Universityen_US
dc.subjectPopulation dynamicsen_US
dc.subjectMalathionen_US
dc.subjectSitophilus zeamaisen_US
dc.subjectMaize weevilen_US
dc.titleEffect of varying doses of Malathion on population dynamics of Tophilus zeamais (maize weevil) on stored maize and sorghum grainen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US


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