Claim · model-written summary
Diversification with Brachiaria and biopesticides yielded lower gross margins through higher costs and lower maize production.
- Treatment
- crop and habitat diversification with Brachiaria and biopesticidese0
- Outcome
- gross marginse0
- Direction
- lowere0
- Qualifier
- increased costs and reduced maize productione0
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Verbatim
e0“IPM strategies incorporating crop and habitat diversification with Brachiaria and biopesticides resulted in lower gross margins due to increased costs and reduced maize production”
Title
Antoine Sanon; Pieterjan De Bauw; Edouard Lehmann; et al. Crop Protection 2025. doi:10.1016/j.cropro.2025.107359
Other claims from this paper (9)
- Observation Fall armyworm infested maize throughout the season at all six sites.
- Intervention effect Tested IPM strategies did not significantly reduce infestation rates.
- Intervention effect Tested IPM strategies did not significantly reduce larval density.
- Intervention effect Tested IPM strategies did not significantly reduce attack severity.
- Intervention effect Maize yield did not differ significantly among treatments.
- Observation Ear infestation was high across treatments.
- Association Ear infestation reduced the marketable share of maize.
- Intervention effect Farmer practice with susceptible variety and emamectin benzoate gave the highest gross margins.
- Observation Tolerant variety plus azadirachtin ranked second for gross margins.