D Prasad
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Agro-informatics is the application in agriculture with innovative ideas, techniques and scientific knowledge to expand the horizons of the computer science. The book explores how ICT in Agriculture is gaining momentum throughout the World. There is a huge demand for Agricultural Graduates with ICTs skills and profound Informatics, Knowledge, to leverage a mix of emerging and existing technologies for effective and inexpensive ICT penetration in agricultural ...
The book Plant Protection, Diversity and Conservation is a critical and comprehensive compilation of 52 chapters on various aspects of Plant Protection especially on insect pest, disease, nematode and weed, diversity, prevalence and conservation of beneficial insects, bioagents, parasites, parasitoids and predators and entopathogenic nematodes that control harmful insects. The book primarily meant for students, teachers and research scholars who are engaged in ...
Crop protection is a major sector of agriculture which attempts to reduce the losses due to insect pests, diseases, nematodes and weeds which are a major constraint in the production and productivity of economically important crops. Indiscriminate and injudicious use of chemical pesticides has caused harm to human health and environment. Therefore, ecologically safe option of integrated pest management (IPM) considered as springboard to sustainable crop ...
Intensive research in the ways to combat a vast array of pest and disease of crops of agricultural importance especially over the twentieth century has provided a multitude of control tactics. Most of these rely on the use of exotic chemicals which although give a quick and convincing control, also involve immediate and/or cumulative environmental hazards. A large number of eco-friendly methods are also known, some of which are the results of long human ...
The Soil Environment and Pesticides attempts to consolidate available information on environmental interactions of the soil applied insecticides, nematicides, fungicides, herbicides and fertilizers. There are 19 critical thought provoking chapters by experts in relevant fields, divided into six parts, dealing with the general aspects of soil environment-pesticide interaction, economics of losses due to pests and pesticide use, effects of different categories of ...
Plant protection is a major sub-sector of agriculture which attempts to reduce the losses due to insect pests, diseases, nematodes and weeds have also limited the production and productivity of economic of important crops. A large number of noxious pests attack all parts of plant resulting into a lot of quality produce. This book uniquely combines all the subjects of plant protection, and discusses the scope and methodology for increasing the production ...
The rapid change in the agro-ecosystem leaves a snag in the establishment of harmony in the discord of the disturb ecosystem due to wide usage of chemical pesticides, fertilizer and synthetic plant growth regulators. The long-term effect were overlooked hence, boom of one time become bane for the ecosystem degradation. At the present context, it has become indispensable to look for sustainable crop protection management approaches for insect pests, diseases, ...
The rapid change in the agroecosystem leaves a snag in the establishment of harmony of the disturbed ecosystem. In put shell, man's frantic bid for more production tended him to be oblivious of the ecological implications of the measures adopted to achieve immediate benefit, thus the urge for evolution of pest management in a sustainable manner. There are 32 critical through provoking chapters by experts in relevant fields. In Entomology, chapters are ...
Of late, frequent application and large scale use of pesticides for control of pests led to the endangerment of agro-ecosystem. Indiscriminate use of insecticides resulted in the destruction of parasitoids and predators of the pests and ultimately led to the resistance of pests of insecticides and insect resurgence. In the light of these problems, considerable research has been devoted to the elucidation of the toxic residues in/on consumable produce. Considering ...