New pest threatens food stocks
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Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation
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Since the end of the 1970s a new insect pest, Prostephanus truncatus, has been ravaging food stocks in some African countries. Introduced from Central America, where it attacks mostly maize, it can destroy up to 30 % of stored maize, cassava and,...