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World Service,23 Jun 1999,13 mins

Farmers at work with their Feathered Friends

The Farming World

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In India, the pod borer insect Helicoverpa attacks some 150 crops. Dr GV Ranga Rao of ICRISAT in Hydrabad explains how to entice insectivorous birds like the drongo and egret to visit fields and eat the pod borer caterpillars. Plus three examples of appropriate technology designed for farmers in Bolivia: a see-saw water pump, a composting latrine, and a rope or rosary pump.

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