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Pests viz., insects, mites, rodents, etc. complete humans beings in almost every sphere, and are harmful to them and also to domestic animals in a number of ways. These pests make their home in both urban and rural houses and damage house hold commodities, food grains, wooden structures, books, clothes, etc. They also transmit deadly diseases in both human and animals by feeding and their activities on them.This book provides the information on the pests of urban ...
"Insects, pathogens, nematodes and plants have co-existed for nearly about 400 million years. Since then the above pests have been causing enormous losses to the plants amounted to 20-30% losses as per estimates given so far in the country. Realizing the role of these pests as limiting factor in agricultural productivity, several methods were developed and incorporated into management program for economically important pests. Out of these, use of ...
Insecticides, the chemicals used to control harmful insect pests, play an important role in modern agriculture. Although they are used extensively for protection of agricultural crops against noxius pests yet they are thought to be major pollutants of food and environment. This book furnishes a detailed account of insecticides, their properties, mode of action, biotransformation, uses on different agricultural crops, the problem of toxicity, residues, resistance ...
The concept of IPM has been developed to cope up with the diversity and complexity of pest problems which limit the production as well as the quality of produce. The horticultural crops are very important diversified group of crops which are susceptible to a large number of insects causing reduction in yield. In traditional agriculture, the insect pests were kept under check by various cultural and mechanical approaches; while modern agriculture, relies upon the ...
Insect pest control has become the most pressing problem in recent years. The pesticides are considered as an essential inputs for solving the problem in sustainable crop production, but the experiences over the years have shown that their large scale and indiscriminate use has resulted into highly unstable agro-ecosystem. This book deals with pesticides, their ill effects such as elimination of non-target organisms including bio-agents, development of ...