Enormity of crop damage resulting from nematode invasion and the development and the necessity of their effective control under field conditions have come about slowly since past several decades, only after the discovery of some very effective nematicidal chemicals during the 1940s and 1950s, that growers were paying yearly taxes to these tiny but mighty pests. Our crops have been plagued with nematodes since remote past, though unnoticed by early farmers. For ...
