Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: Birds causing crop damage led to an economic problem in Egypt's agricultural. Therefore, this work aimed to determine the damage in some crops, such as wheat, barley, broad bean, sunflower, grapes, and tomato in the fields of Yousef El-Sedik, Fayoum Governorate. Moreover, some mechanical approaches (Fish net, and reflecting stripes) were evaluated. The results revealed that the birds attacked all the ripening stages of the plants except tomato and grapes, they were only damaged in the mature stage. Also, broad beans were damaged in the milky and dough stages, but there was no damage in the mature stage. Regarding the results, the investigation found that the fishnet approach was more effective and achieved 100% protection for all crops compared to the scaring approaches (Reflecting stripes). Therefore, it can be concluded that the birds caused the damage to crops in all ripening stages of crops, and fishnets achieved complete protection for the crops, but they are very expensive for the farmer and difficult to use in the mature stage in some crops, so it needs more studies to protect crops, especially at the mature stage and at the lowest costs to help farmers and solve the economic problems in agriculture.
Authors: M.A. Mohamed, M. Wilson, W.F. Soliman
Institutions: Fayoum University, Agricultural Research Center
Language: English
Subfield: Ecology
Field: Environmental Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
SDGs: Zero hunger, Life on land
Open Access status: hybrid
OpenAlex ID: W4411134648