Abstract
Intercropping is an important practice for controlling crop pests in Ethiopia. However, there is a limited studies on the maize–faba bean intercropping benefits for controlling stemborer ( Busseola fusca ) pests. This study was carried out at Wukro Agricultural College, Tigray, Ethiopia, to investigate the effects of maize intercrops with two faba bean varieties (Gora and Moti) at three different population levels (25%, 50%, and 75%) of the recommended sole faba bean (250,000 plants ha −1 ) on infestation, density, and damage of stemborer on maize. The intercrops significantly ( p < 0.05) reduced the stemborer infestation, density, and damage on maize over to the sole maize. Maize intercrops with the Gora faba bean variety at a density of 50% lowered the pest damage on maize cobs by 35% relative to the sole maize. The intercrop also reduced the grain yield and economic losses due to the pest by 48% and 53%, respectively, compared to the sole maize. The results recommended that maize intercropped with the Gora faba bean variety at a density of 50% could be used as an alternative farming against stemborer pest in the semiarid farming systems of northern Ethiopia.
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Claim · model-written summary
Intercrops significantly reduced stemborer infestation on maize.
- Treatment
- intercropse0
- Interactor
- stemborere0pest
- Outcome
- stemborer infestatione0
- Direction
- reducede0
- Comparator
- sole maizee0
Zea maysOrganisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“The intercrops significantly ( p < 0.05) reduced the stemborer infestation, density, and damage on maize over to the sole maize”
Claim · model-written summary
Intercrops significantly reduced stemborer density on maize.
- Treatment
- intercropse0
- Interactor
- stemborere0pest
- Outcome
- densitye0
- Direction
- reducede0
- Comparator
- sole maizee0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“The intercrops significantly ( p < 0.05) reduced the stemborer infestation, density, and damage on maize over to the sole maize”
Claim · model-written summary
Intercrops significantly reduced stemborer damage on maize.
- Treatment
- intercropse0
- Interactor
- stemborere0pest
- Outcome
- stemborer infestation, density, and damage on maizee0
- Direction
- reducede0
- Comparator
- sole maizee0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“The intercrops significantly ( p < 0.05) reduced the stemborer infestation, density, and damage on maize over to the sole maize”
Claim · model-written summary
Gora faba bean at 50% density reduced maize cob pest damage by 35%.
- Treatment
- intercrops with the Gora faba bean variety at a density of 50%e0
- Interactor
- Busseola fusca
Busseola fuscat0pest - Outcome
- pest damage on maize cobse0
- Direction
- lowerede0
- Value
- 35%e0
- Comparator
- sole maizee0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Maize intercrops with the Gora faba bean variety at a density of 50% lowered the pest damage on maize cobs by 35% relative to the sole maize”
t0“Busseola fusca”
Claim · model-written summary
The Gora intercrop reduced pest-related grain yield losses by 48%.
- Treatment
- intercrope0
- Interactor
- peste0pest
- Outcome
- grain yield and economic losses due to the peste0
- Direction
- reducede0
- Value
- 48%e0
- Comparator
- sole maizee0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“The intercrop also reduced the grain yield and economic losses due to the pest by 48% and 53%, respectively, compared to the sole maize”
Claim · model-written summary
The Gora intercrop reduced pest-related economic losses by 53%.
- Treatment
- intercrope0
- Interactor
- peste0pest
- Outcome
- economic losses due to the peste0
- Direction
- reducede0
- Value
- 53%e0
- Comparator
- sole maizee0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“The intercrop also reduced the grain yield and economic losses due to the pest by 48% and 53%, respectively, compared to the sole maize”
Claim · model-written summary
The authors recommended maize intercropped with Gora at 50% density against stemborer.
- Interactor
- stemborere0pest
- Outcome
- maize intercropped with the Gora faba bean variety at a density of 50%e0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“maize intercropped with the Gora faba bean variety at a density of 50% could be used as an alternative farming against stemborer pest”
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