PANGAEA_989648
Banana weevil (Cosmopolites sordidus) pseudostem damage, crop traits and management practices from East Africa Highland banana farms in the Mt Elgon region, Mbale District, Uganda (2021)
Musungu, Sally; Mumford, John; Taulya, Godfrey
Banana weevil (Cosmopolites sordidus) pseudostem damage, crop traits and management practices from East Africa Highland banana farms in the Mt Elgon region, Mbale District, Uganda (2021)
2026-02-13
PANGAEA
Dataset
https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.989648
Investigator
Sally
Musungu
mrnmusungu@gmail.com
Earth Science
Event label
District
Village
Site index code
LATITUDE
LONGITUDE
Position uncertainty
Sample elevation
Banana variety
Pseudostem diameter
Pseudostem damage
Frequency
Member
Farming system
Manure
Fertilizer
Pesticide
Management
Intercrop
Slope description
geoscientificInformation
Banana weevils
East Africa Highland Bananas
Mbale District
Mount-Elgon_\Z
Mount-Elgon_A
Mount-Elgon_ABC
Mount-Elgon_AEM
Mount-Elgon_AJW
Mount-Elgon_AKL
Mount-Elgon_AMIK
Mount-Elgon_AMT
Mount-Elgon_Anandira
Mount-Elgon_ANE
Mount-Elgon_ANMC
Mount-Elgon_APB
Mount-Elgon_APW
Mount-Elgon_ASG
Mount-Elgon_Awanzinura
Mount-Elgon_AWILL
Mount-Elgon_AWP
Mount-Elgon_BBON
Mount-Elgon_BFRE
Mount-Elgon_BJAM
Mount-Elgon_BKO2
Mount-Elgon_BMAY
Mount-Elgon_BMIC
Mount-Elgon_BMIL
Mount-Elgon_BMK
Mount-Elgon_BMUG
Mount-Elgon_BNAB
Mount-Elgon_BNAD
Mount-Elgon_BNAN
Mount-Elgon_BREU
Mount-Elgon_BROS
Mount-Elgon_BSAM
Mount-Elgon_BTIMO
Mount-Elgon_CAUT
Mount-Elgon_CDIB
Mount-Elgon_CFIN
Mount-Elgon_CGAM
Mount-Elgon_CGEO
Mount-Elgon_CIII
Mount-Elgon_CJOY
Mount-Elgon_CKIM
Mount-Elgon_CNAN
Mount-Elgon_CTOM
Mount-Elgon_CVIC
Mount-Elgon_CWEK
Mount-Elgon_CWOD
Mt Elgon, Uganda
Pest management
Pseudostem damage
Uganda
Ruler stick
Visual inspection
Interviews
2021-01-01
2021-12-31
Complete
0.9499999999999945
0.9499999999999945
34.32999999999994
34.32999999999994
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CC-BY-4.0: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (License comes into effect after moratorium ends)
English
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Data Center Contact
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online
6981 data points
text/tab-separated-values
Musungu, Sally (2025): Climate-pest-management interactions a case of Uganda [dissertation].
This dataset contains farm-level measurements of East African Highland Banana crop morphology, banana weevil (Cosmopolites sordidus) pseudostem damage, and associated management practices collected from banana farms in the Mt Elgon area of Mbale District, eastern Uganda, in 2021. Surveyed banana farms are located at elevations between 1700 and 2200 m above sea level. The dataset includes spatial attributes (such as village, district, latitude, longitude, altitude, and coordinate uncertainty) and biological variables, including pseudostem morphology (upper and lower inner and outer diameters) and pseudostem banana weevil damage (%) recorded separately for inner and outer tissues at both upper and lower stem sections. Management and household variables include the number of farm visits, the type of farm labour, manure application, pesticide use, other banana weevil management practices, intercropping status and type, slope type, farm age (years), farmer age (years), and farmer-reported preferred and least-preferred banana varieties with reasons for their rankings. Data were collected during on-farm field visits. Pseudostem diameters were measured directly on freshly cut pseudostems with the cross-section exposed, using a graduated measuring ruler. Pseudostem damage was assessed by cutting the pseudostem and visually estimating the proportion of tissue damaged by banana weevil larvae at each stem section. Management, socio-economic, and preference variables were obtained through structured farmer interviews conducted during the same visits. Farm locations were recorded at the village level and linked to geographic coordinates derived from open-source geospatial data, primarily OpenStreetMap. Coordinates represent village-level centroids and are reported in the World Geodetic System 1984 coordinate reference system. A coordinate uncertainty of 1 km was applied to village centroids to reflect spatial generalisation and protect participant confidentiality. Where villages could not be uniquely resolved, district-level reference coordinates were used with an expanded uncertainty of 5 km to reflect reduced spatial precision. The dataset is intended to support analysis of interactions between banana weevil pest damage and environmental conditions in a mountain ecosystem. It is also intended to document the distribution of East African Highland Banana crop varieties in Uganda's high-altitude production areas. ** For all details see the full metadata description at "https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.989648"! ** Author's contribution:
Sally Musungu - Project design, acquisition, processing, analyses and compilation of data
The late Professor John Mumford - Project design **
Dr Godfrey Taulya - ** Funding to support data acquisition
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_6709
LATITUDE
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_6709
LONGITUDE
DIF
9.4
2026-02-13
2026-04-30