“Biorationals” in integrated pest management strategies

Baculoviruses: Members of Integrated Pest Management Strategies

Integrated Pest Management (IPM) can be defined as “an ecologically based pest control strategy that relies heavily on natural mortality factors and seeks out control tactics that disrupt these factors as little as possible” (Flint & Bosch, 1981). IPM began to be applied because the extensive use of chemical insecticides show different types of environmental damages, as development of resistant...

Exploring the Role of Nitrogen in Integrated Pest Management Strategies

Integrated pest management (IPM) programs have been developed for almost all agricultural and ornamental crop production systems over the past two decades. But only recently have IPM and organic management systems been considered a truly primary approach in professional turfgrass management. The reasons for the dramatic increase in organic approaches are centered on public concern for the envir...

Integrated pest management.

Integrated pest management, in which the conventional pesticides are augmented by one or more nonchemical control practices, has been receiving renewed interest. What is new in this revitalization of an old technique is the careful and more knowledgeable application of a variety of control techniques.

Integrated Pest Management

Research and development on IPM was initiated in Pakistan in the 70’s. However, efforts to implement IPM at the farm level did not bear fruit. A major obstacle has been the mindset at the policy level to increase crop production to feed the ever-increasing population. Pesticides became a major instrument of increasing production leading to ‘pesticide treadmill’ situation. Although IPM-FFS “Veha...

Integrated pest management.