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Pest Management in Field Crops : Principles and Practices

Hardbound. Condición: As New. New. Contents 1. Introduction. 2. Plant protection importance and history. 3. Pest management principles and concepts. 4. Pest surveillance and crop loss assessment. 5. Pesticides pesticide appliance and preparation of spray fluid. 6. Integrated pest management a shifting paradigm in pest management. 7. Pest of cereals rice and wheat. 8. Pests of millets. 9. Pests of pulses. 10. Pest of oilseeds. 11. Pests of cotton. 12. Pests of sugarcane. 13. Pests of tobacco. 14. Pests of green manure and forage crops. 15. Non insect pests. 16. Pests of stored products. 17. Locusts and their management. 18. Mass production of bio control agents. 19. Potential integrated pest management strategies for crop pests. 20. Biotechnology and insect pest management. Model questions for discussion. Websites and references. Glossary. As one may surmise from what has been said textbooks are not the best places for anyone to seek the latest in insect control recommendations. On the other hand this book gives both background and latest information on insect pests their life histories and an appraisal of the pest problems on various field crops including emerging pests and management with special reference to Integrated Pest Management and Biotechnological Approach in Pest Management. Pest Management in Field Crops Principles and Practices consists of twenty chapters. Illustrations few case studies diagnostic boxes boldface type a glossary Web Sites and model questions with answers are the special features of this book. The book can be used as an introduction for undergraduates. For beginner in entomology early chapters are dealt with basics for easy understanding the remaining chapters on pest surveillance and crop loss assessment pesticides pesticide appliances and preparation of spray fluid shifting paradigm in pest management Potential Integrated Pest Management strategies for crop pests mass production of bio control agents and biotechnology and pest management. Further an attempt has been made to cover histories principles concepts and various methods of pest management and a few case studies in this book so that once learned the student can handle specific insect problems himself/herself or will know where to get the information he/she needs. We have begun the main part of this book with bionomics symptoms of damage mark of identification viable IPM strategies for key pests and emerging pests on many field crops along with illustrations. First we enlisted the number of pests in each crop and categorized the importance as sucking pests borers leaf feeders and others. Second we dealt with how these pests cause damage and then in general how they are controlled. After these introductory sections we considered the bionomics economic threshold level and management for major pests of field crops and finally we covered the potential. Integrated Pest Management strategies for crop pests mass production of bio control agents and biotechnology and pest management. 302 pp. Nº de ref. del artículo: 68788

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