https://ijojournals.com/index.php/m <p><strong>IJO Journal of Mathematics</strong> is an international journal devoted to research concerning all aspects of mathematics. The Journal’s policy is to motivate authors to publish research papers that represent significant contributions, and which are of broad interests to the fields of pure and applied mathematics. <strong>IJO Journal of Mathematics&nbsp;</strong>journal which publishes research articles, reviews, case studies, guest edited thematic issues and short communications/letters in all areas of mathematics, applied mathematics, applied commutative algebra and algebraic geometry, mathematical biology, physics and engineering, theoretical bioinformatics, experimental mathematics etc.&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;</p> IJO JOURNALS en-US IJO - International Journal of Mathematics (ISSN: 2992-4421 ) <p>Author(s) and co-author(s)&nbsp;jointly&nbsp;and severally represent and warrant that the Article is original with the author(s) and does not infringe any&nbsp;copyright or violate any other right of any third parties and that the Article has not been published&nbsp;elsewhere.&nbsp;Author(s) agree to the terms that the <strong>IJO Journal</strong> will have the full right to remove the published article on any misconduct found in the published article.</p> https://ijojournals.com/index.php/m/article/view/1353 <p><em>In this paper a logistic growth model of field crops is formulated and analysed to examine the best measure to reduce pest infestation to enhance food security. A control model is developed based on three control measures; the prevention measure (u</em><em>₁</em><em>) that protect susceptible crops from pest (the rate of brush trimming and removal of weeds), pesticide control measure (u</em><em>₂</em><em>) and the rate of removal of infected plants (u</em><em>₃</em><em>). The effective reproduction number that determines pest extinction and crop survival is obtained and use to establish the condition for the local asymptotic stability of the pest-free equilibrium using the method of linearization. The existence of the pest- endemic equilibrium is verified using the Descartes rule of signs. Numerical simulations are performed </em><em>to reveal the effects of the control measures on the field crops. </em><em>The findings show that each integrated measure is able to mitigate pest infestation in the specified time.</em></p> Joy Ijeoma Uwakwe Pius Achugamonu Eric Anyanwu Napoleon Inalegwu ##submission.copyrightStatement## https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ 2026-08-31 2026-08-31 9 08 01 10