The metal silo: An effective grain storage technology for reducing post-harvest insect and pathogen losses in maize while improving smallholder farmers' food security in developing countries

By T. Tefera, F. Kanampiu, H. Groote, J. Hellin, S. Mugo, S. Kimenju, Y. Beyene, Prasanna M. Boddupalli, B. Shiferaw, M. Bänziger. 2011

342 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Molecular Biology, Plant Science

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In Molecular Biology

1. Zeyaur Khan
2. M. Kassie

In Plant Science

1. C. Midega
2. Zeyaur Khan
3. Deepak Kumar
4. Prasanta K. Kalita
5. Jimmy Pittchar
6. T. Tefera
7. A. Murage
8. M. Kassie

Citations in the corpus

• Managing storage pests of maize: Farmers' knowledge, perceptions and practices in western Kenya (2016, background): “While a number of efforts are being implemented to help alleviate ravages caused by field pests (Midega et al., 2015), post-harvest losses resulting from insects remain a huge challenge (Tefera et al., 2010).”
• Post-harvest food losses in a maize-based farming system of semi-arid savannah area of Tanzania (2014, background): “…technologies for controlling post-harvest loss include contact insecticides and fumigants, botanicals, inert dusts, biological control agents, hermetic storage technologies in form of metal silos and high-density polyethylene that reduces gas exchange (Obeng-Ofori, 2011; Tefera et al., 2011a).”
• Reducing Postharvest Losses during Storage of Grain Crops to Strengthen Food Security in Developing Countries (2017, background): “High concentrations of aflatoxin can lead to aflatoxicosis, which can cause severe illness and even death [63].”
• An Overview of the Post-Harvest Grain Storage Practices of Smallholder Farmers in Developing Countries (2018, background): “In addition to this, metal silos are also effective against rodents, birds, and insects [84,90].”
• Impact of metal silos on households’ maize storage, storage losses and food security: An application of a propensity score matching (2013, background): “Metal silos provide a strong barrier against insect pests and rodents and are hermetically sealed, killing any remaining insects through oxygen depletion (Tefera et al., 2011).”