Discovery of the Boll Weevil, Anthonomus grandis Boheman in Paraguay (Coleoptera: Curculionidae)
- The major agricultural export of Paraguay is cotton. This is mostly produced on 150,000 small permanent farms seldom over 12 acres in size. Cotton is plowed by horse or oxen and picked by hand. The whole family works on the farm with additional hands for harvest. Competition with modern mechanized agriculture is possible because of high yields and low production costs. No other crop has proven as suitable for the Paraguayan small farmer. Upon the arrival of the boll weevil, Anthonomus grandis Boheman, from infested Brazil, costs of production could increase by 500 per cent, making competition on the world market impossible. A disaster of major proportions is predictable.
| Author: | Rosa Maria Marengo, Willard H. Whitcomb |
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30-1158629 |
| Parent Title (English): | Insecta mundi : a journal of world insect systematics |
| Publisher: | Center for Systematic Entomology |
| Place of publication: | Gainesville, Fla. |
| Document Type: | Article |
| Language: | English |
| Date of Publication (online): | 2010/07/26 |
| Year of first Publication: | 1991 |
| Publishing Institution: | Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg |
| Release Date: | 2010/07/26 |
| Volume: | 05 |
| Issue: | 1 |
| Page Number: | 1 |
| First Page: | 44 |
| Last Page: | 44 |
| Source: | Gainesville : Insecta Mundi 05:1, S. 44 |
| HeBIS-PPN: | 265730562 |
| Dewey Decimal Classification: | 5 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik / 59 Tiere (Zoologie) / 590 Tiere (Zoologie) |
| Sammlungen: | Sammlung Biologie / Sondersammelgebiets-Volltexte |
| Zeitschriften / Jahresberichte: | Insecta Mundi / Insecta Mundi, Volume 5 (1991) |
| : | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-333022 |
| Licence (German): |  Deutsches Urheberrecht |
