Integrated Pest Management in Irrigated Agriculture

Integrated Pest Management IPM is a sustainable pest management strategy that seeks to prevent unacceptable high crop losses due to pest damage without causing major perturbation to the agro-ecosystem. The book on "Integrated Pest Management in Irrigated Agriculture" has attempted broad principles of integrating management tactics and gives examples of Insect pest management program being adopted in the Chambal Command Area in Rajasthan. This book is a outgrowth of Chambal experience of IPM dovetailed with lectures presented by many academians, researchers and field practitioners of leading institutes of the country. This book will provide field experience on IPM to all those researchers, policy makers, extension functionaries & farmers who are dedicated to IPM methodology. This book will also be useful as a teaching and reference source to the students and trainers in field of IPM.