Mr. Palacios, the coca trade expert, and other town officials said farmers did cultivate coca, but also a host of legal crops, as well as cattle and other livestock.
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Since its identification as the causal agent of fruitlet rot of pineapple in the Philippines in 1928 [ 3], P. ananatis has been implicated in diseases of a wide range of host crops including maize and onion, Eucalyptus, sudangrass and honeydew melons [ 1, 4].
Contrarily, there was no clear direction in relationships between pests and pest control and landscape when the latter was described as the overall proportion of cultivated area or as that of crops host to particular pests.
As such, knowledge of pests of environmental hosts or crops of limited regional importance are unlikely to be complete.
Because H. armigera is polyphagous and highly mobile, it is often assumed that refuges of non-cotton host crops and wild host plants provide sufficient refuges to delay the evolution of resistance, thus reducing or even suppressing the need of non-Bt cotton refuges (Ravi et al. 2005; Wu and Guo 2005; Liu et al. 2010; Qiao et al. 2010).
Particularly, there have been reported cases of conflict arising from the destruction of crops in the host communities by the transhumant herds (Tonah 2003; Moritz 2006), which has contributed to deteriorating relationships between transhumant herders and local farmers.
