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Sustained rainfall fell throughout the year even though the total amount during the long rainy season period was far below the usual average.
Labour requirements during the rainy season make the purchase of food a rational option.
However, fallowing fields in the rainy season results in reduced cropping intensity.
The same result was found in the long rainy season of 2003, albeit with lower yield differences of 0.08 and 0.11 t hax1, respectively.
The time frames cover the warm and rainy season, when peaks of mosquito abundance are more likely to occur in the area.
Critical stages of mortality were egg and larva during the rainy season and larva and pupae during the dry season.
Rainfall was identified as a key factor of mortality in the rainy season, and indeed it was a major mortality factor (table 1).
Overall, these physiological disturbances were higher in the rainy season (table 1).
The semi-arid climate in the study area has low, highly variable rainfall, distributed in two rainy seasons.
The two major cropping seasons in this region correspond to the rainy and winter seasons.
Sampling times 2 and 3 were in the rainy season, which coincided with the rice season in three of the farming systems.
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