| Table
9. |
Lepidopteran
Pest Infestation Levels and Cotton Area (000s of Hectares)
in the Top 50 Cotton-Growing Countries |
|
|
Pest
Infestation Level H, MH, M, L
|
Asia
|
|
Americas
|
Africas
|
Europe
|
Total
No. of Countries
|
CATEGORY
1
|
HIGH
|
(8,730)
|
HIGH
|
|
HIGH
|
(315)
|
HIGH
|
(88)
|
19
|
| |
India
|
(4,824)
|
Argentina
|
(152)
|
Egypt
|
Spain
|
|
|
(38%)
|
| |
China
|
(3,125)
|
Paraguay
|
(150)
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
Pakistan
|
(404)
|
Peru
|
(102)
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
Australia
|
(270)
|
Mexico
|
(80)
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
Myanmar
|
|
Colombia
|
(41)
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
Thailand
|
(49)
|
Bolivia
|
(15)
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
Vietnam
|
(30)
|
Ecuador
|
(5)
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
Indonesia
|
(22)
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
Bangladesh
|
(17)
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
Philippines
|
(3)
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
CATEGORY
2
|
|
|
|
|
MEDIUM
TO HIGH
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Mali
|
(516)
|
|
|
21
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Benin
|
(415)
|
|
|
(42%)
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Nigeria
|
(403)
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Tanzania
|
(392)
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Zimbabwe
|
(364)
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
BurkinallFaso
|
(351)
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Chad
|
(312)
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Cotelld'Ivoire
|
(285)
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Mozambique
|
(213)
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Cameroon
|
(202)
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Uganda
|
(200)
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Togo
|
(165)
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Zambia
|
(125)
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Sudan
|
(123)
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Ethiopia
|
(45)
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
South
Africa
|
(44)
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Ghana
|
(34)
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Senegal
|
(33)
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Kenya
|
(30)
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Guinea
|
(30)
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Madagascar
|
(29)
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
CATEGORY
3
|
|
|
MEDIUM
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
USA
|
(5,596)
|
|
|
|
|
2
|
| |
|
|
Brazil
|
(750)
|
|
|
|
|
(4%)
|
CATEGORY
4
|
LOW
|
|
|
|
|
|
LOW
|
|
|
| |
Uzbekistan
|
(1,453)
|
|
|
|
|
Greece
|
(381)
|
8
|
| |
Turkey
|
(654)
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
(16%)
|
| |
Turkmenistan
|
(550)
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
Tajikistan
|
(258)
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
Syria
|
(257)
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
Iran
|
(206)
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
Kazakhstan
|
(184)
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
TOTALS
Nos. of Countries & %
|
17
|
34%
|
9
|
18%
|
22
|
44%
|
2
|
4%
|
50 (100%)
|
| Source: |
Clive
James, 2002. Estimates of infestation consolidated from various
sources. L represents Low infestations of Lepidopteran pests
up to 30% of national cotton area affected. M represents Medium
infestations of Lepidopteran pests between 31 and 70% of national
cotton area affected. MH represents Medium to High infestations
of Lepidopteran pests. H represents High infestations of Lepidopteran
pests over 70% of national cotton area affected. |
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