Claim · model-written summary
Effectiveness of chilli pepper against cowpea insect pests was 60-70%.
- Taxon
- cowpea
Vigna unguiculatae0 - Treatment
- chilli peppere1
- Interactor
- insect pestse0pest
- Outcome
- effectivenesse1
- Value
- 60-70%e1
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Verbatim
e0“the efficacy of some selected plant-derived biopesticides against the insect pests of cowpea”
e1“The order of effectiveness of the treatments was tobacco (80-90%), sweetsop (75-85%), garlic (70-80), neem (72-78%), chilli pepper (60-70%) and ginger (30-50%)”
Title
B. I. Ahmed; I. Onu; La Mudi; et al. The Korean Journal of Crop Science 2007
Other claims from this paper (8)
- Intervention effect All plant-derived biopesticide treatments were significantly better than the control for controlling cowpea insect pests.
- Intervention effect Effectiveness of tobacco against cowpea insect pests was 80-90%.
- Intervention effect Effectiveness of sweetsop against cowpea insect pests was 75-85%.
- Intervention effect Effectiveness of garlic against cowpea insect pests was 70-80.
- Intervention effect Effectiveness of neem against cowpea insect pests was 72-78%.
- Intervention effect Effectiveness of ginger against cowpea insect pests was 30-50%.
- Association Cowpea yield corresponded positively with the effectiveness of the treatments.
- Recommendation The authors suggest tobacco, sweetsop and garlic as promising biopesticides for control of cowpea insect pests.