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...

Area-wide pest management is one of several major plans or strategies for coping with pest problems. Management of localized populations is the conventional or most widely used strategy, wherein individual producers, other operators and households practice independent pest control. However, since individual producers or households are not capable of adequately meeting the challenge of certain v...

The study was conducted among the two farmer groups in Bhaktapur and Kavre districts of Nepal. The main objective of the study is to evaluate the differences in belief, attitude and practices felt by the farmers after participation in the IPM FFS. The study has been based on data collected through personal interview with the farmers, focus group discussion, personal observation in the farmers f...

In this chapter we argue that while pesticides can be harmful to pollinators, when they are used in an integrated pest and pollinator management (IPPM) context, both pest management and pollinator protection may be achieved. Our growing knowledge of the impacts of pesticides on honey bees as well as bumble bees and solitary bees allows us to use the latitude we have in pest management including...

The aim of the research was analysis of rice producers’ perceptions of participatory communication in the use of integrated pest management (IPM). Research population was consisted of rice producers in the west of Mazandaran province (N=16126), whose 187 ones were selected using Cochran’s formula. Data were gathered by systematic random sampling method. The instrument for data collection was a ...

the purpose of this study is to evaluate greenhouse owners’ knowledge regarding integrated pest management (ipm) in the production of greenhouse cucumber in khorasan razavi province.the survey research was a descriptive – correlational one. the study consisted of all farmers who cultivated greenhouse cucumber in khorasan razavi province (n=160), of whom 108 were selected through a random sampli...

among several pests of rice as one of the main agricultural products in iran, rice borer, chilo suppressalis is one of the most important pests of this crop. use of pesticides coincided with the occurrence of this pest in the northern region of iran in 1972. at present in order to control this pest, more than 12000 tones of pesticides granules are used annually. ecological effects of pesticides...

Areawide management has a long history of achieving solutions that target pests, however, there has been little focus on the areawide management of arthropod natural enemies. Landscape ecology studies that show a positive relationship between natural enemy abundance and habitat diversity demonstrate landscape-dependent pest suppression, but have not yet clearly linked their findings to pest man...