Logo Lanfrica
  • Home
  • Atlas
  • Insights
  • Docs
  • Sign in

© 2026 Lanfrica. All rights reserved. All copyrights of the resources shown on the Lanfrica website belong to the original copyright holders, unless explicitly stated otherwise.

Research-based Recommendations <i>versus</i> Farmers' Practices: Some Lessons From Cotton-Spraying in Malawi

Domain:

agriculture

Record type:

paper
Creator:
Joh
Publisher:
Cam
Host:
SUMMARY The discrepancy between farmers' performances and research-based recommendations in the control of cotton pests in Southern Malawi is discussed. Analysis of the former in two seasons revealed that the farmers' low levels of insecticide application approached the economic optimum, whereas several factors of economic importance were omitted from the research-based justification of high spraying levels. Recommendations for improving the applicability of research recommendations to smallholder farming are made, with particular reference to the farming risks that arise from uncertain rainfall, the wide range of farming ability encountered in practice, and the dangers of atypically high levels of management in research experiments.

Visit

doi.org

Licenses

https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms

Similar

Some species of <i>Atherigona</i> (Diptera: Muscidae) reared from <i>Gramineae</i> in SenegalSome Amharic and other documents from the Eugen Mittwoch<i>Nachlass</i>Diagnostic accuracy of non‐specialist <i>versus</i> specialist health workers in diagnosing hearing loss and ear disease in MalawiAssessing the role of non‐cotton refuges in delaying <i>Helicoverpa armigera</i> resistance to Bt cotton in West AfricaNucleotide Diversity of <i>pfcsp</i> from Malawi and the Gambia.Multidrug-resistant <i>Pseudomonas</i> <i>aeruginosa</i> isolated from ear and wound swabs in some selected hospital laboratories in Sokoto Metropolis, Nigeria

Some species of <i>Atherigona</i> (Diptera: Muscidae) reared from <i>Gramineae</i> in Senegal

SUMMARY The sorghum shoot fly, Atherigona soccata is a pest of economic importance, on late‐sown

Some Amharic and other documents from the Eugen Mittwoch<i>Nachlass</i>

There are two specific reasons for publishing these documents—quite apart from their intrinsic value

Diagnostic accuracy of non‐specialist <i>versus</i> specialist health workers in diagnosing hearing loss and ear disease in Malawi

Abstract Objective To determine whether a non‐specialist health worker can accurately undertake a

Assessing the role of non‐cotton refuges in delaying <i>Helicoverpa armigera</i> resistance to Bt cotton in West Africa

Abstract Non‐cotton host plants without Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) toxins can provide refuges th

Nucleotide Diversity of <i>pfcsp</i> from Malawi and the Gambia.

The nucleotide diversity (π) was determined for the sequenced region using a sliding window (size

Multidrug-resistant <i>Pseudomonas</i> <i>aeruginosa</i> isolated from ear and wound swabs in some selected hospital laboratories in Sokoto Metropolis, Nigeria

Objective: Pseudomonas aeruginosa is a metabolically versatile bacterium that can cause a wide r