About the Authors

Abel Jonathan Mussa

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

abel.mussa@sua.ac.tz

Affiliation Department of Crop Science and Horticulture, Sokoine University of agriculture, Morogoro, Tanzania

Sija Kabota

Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Crop Science and Horticulture, Sokoine University of agriculture, Morogoro, Tanzania, Research, Consultancy and Publication Unit, National Sugar Institute (NSI), Kidatu-Morogoro, Tanzania

Joseph O Ruboha

Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Crop Science and Horticulture, Sokoine University of agriculture, Morogoro, Tanzania, Department of Agricultural Sciences, Sokoine University of agriculture, Mpanda-Katavi, Tanzania

Martin John Martin

Roles Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institute of Pest Management IPM, Sokoine University of agriculture, Morogoro, Tanzania

Maulid W Mwatawala

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Crop Science and Horticulture, Sokoine University of agriculture, Morogoro, Tanzania

Competing Interests

The authors declare that there is no conflict of interests regarding the publication of this Manuscript.