INTEGRATED PEST MANAGEMENT (IPM) AND ITS APPLICATION IN RICE – A REVIEW

The ecology of vertebrate pests and integrated pest management (IPM)

Assessment of Small Scale Farmers’ Skills Regarding Integrated Pest Management (IPM) in District Sargodha Pakistan

Asurvey study was conducted to assess the knowledge/awareness level in IPM technology among farmers. Four villages were randomly selected from Sargodha district for data collection. Thirteen farmers from each village were selected randomly and sample size was 52 respondents. More than 92% of respondents have no advisory services either from public or private sector. The findings imply that resp...

Integrated pest management (IPM): definition, historical development and implementation, and the other IPM.

In the long run, this holistic approach to dealing with pests should reduce pesticide use, provide economic savings for the farmer and protect both the environment and human health. The term ‘integrated’ implies incorporation of natural enemy/antagonist levels into decision-making, and use of compatible, non-disruptive tactics that preserve these agents. Integration can be viewed as either vert...

integrated pest management (ipm) helps reduce pesticide load in cotton

the adoption of integrated pest management (ipm) strategy by farmers of bathinda cotton belt of punjab, india resulted in reduction of insecticidal applications. there was 3-4 times reduction in insecticidal applications in ipm villages (4.86-5.33) over the non-ipm villages (15.16-18.12). a general trend of reduced insecticidal applications of both conventional as well as new insecticides, in i...

Innovative combination of IPM (integrated pest management) tools--the IPM sugar beet model.

In many parts of the world, Cercospora beticola is the most important leaf spot disease of sugar beets. The frequent risk of losses caused by this pathogen demands the application of fungicides in many regions of sugar beet growing. However, the damage potential is variable to a big extent, dependent on year, site and cropping measures. Therefore, we developed an IPM-System, which is reacting f...