Table 2.
Overall treatment effects on sorghum grain damage over the 32-week storage periods in Mbire district, Zimbabwe during the 2014/15 and 2015/16 storage seasons (n = 40).
| Treatment | 2014/15 season | 2015/16 season |
|---|---|---|
| Pesticide 1 (Harare) | 8.6 ± 1.10b | 21.4 ± 2.83c |
| Pesticide 1 (Mbire) | 8.4 ± 0.60b | – |
| Pesticide 2 | – | 18.8 ± 1.73bc |
| Metal Silo | 5.4 ± 0.38a | 12.5 ± 0.61ab |
| PICS bag | 4.8 ± 0.27a | 12.0 ± 0.62a |
| Super Grainbag | 5.2 ± 0.33a | 11.6 ± 0.64a |
| Pesticide-incorporated bag | 10.1 ± 1.21b | 19.1 ± 2.18bc |
| Untreated control | 15.8 ± 1.96c | 21.0 ± 1.69c |
| P-value | < .001 | < . 001 |
| F2, 266 | 36.28 | 42.01 |
Means are compared per column and those which are followed by different letters are statistically different from one another using Tukey’s test at 0.05 level.
‘–’ indicates treatment was excluded.