5 PEST MANAGEMENT INTRODUCTION This chapter describes how Integrated Pest Management practices contribute to reduce the impact of managing agricultural pests on the environment. It contains introductory information on the relationship between pest management and the environment. It also contains information on environmental concerns, legislation and beneficial management practices related to: ♦ pest management ♦ pesticides PEST MANAGEMENT AND THE ENVIRONMENT Pests are a constant threat to the economical production of food crops and animals. They may also affect food ...
Lecture 14: TRADITIONAL METHODS OF PEST CONTROL CULTURAL CONTROL Definition : Manipulation of cultural practices to the disadvantage of pests. I. Farm level pratices S.No. Cropping Techniques Pest Checked 1. Ploughing Red hairy caterpillar 2. Puddling Rice mealy bug 3. Trimming and plastering Rice grass hopper 4. Pest free seed material Potato tuber moth High seed rate 5. Sorghum shootfly 6. Rogue space planting Rice brown planthopper 7. Plant density Rice brown planthopper 8. Earthing up Sugarcane whitefly 9 ...
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SCIENTIFIC & TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH VOLUME 2, ISSUE 6, JUNE 2013 ISSN 2277-8616 The Use Of Plant Parts In Pest Control Activities In Traditional Sri Lankan Agricultural Systems C.U. Widanapathirana, D.L.A.L.A Dassanayake Abstract: Sri Lankan Agriculturehas a very long history and was based on very successful and environmentally healthy principles.The insect Pest management practices known as Kem methods were very successfully performed with the use of plant based materials and cultural ...
PROSIDING SEMINAR NASIONAL PERKEBUNAN “Perlindungan Tanaman Perkebunan untuk Kesejahteraan Rakyat dan Bangsa” Interaksi Tri-Tropik dan Keanekaragaman Parasitoid pada Perkebunan Kelapa Sawit di Jambi (Tritrophic Interaction and Biodiversity of Parasitoid on Oil Palm Plantation in Jambi) Muhammad Iqbal Tawakkal, Damayanti Buchori, Pudjianto, dan Dadan Hindayana Departemen Proteksi Tanaman, Fakultas Pertanian, Institut Pertanian Bogor Email: iqbaltawakkal35@gmail.com ABSTRACT Tritrophic interaction between plants, pest and natural enemies especially parasitoid play important role in oil palm biological control. The stability of trophic interactions ...
CHAPTE_VERMA 1707 P37 ready and edited by goyal ENGINEERING INTERVENTIONS FOR EXTRACTION OF ESSENTIAL OILS FROM PLANTS ASAAD REHMAN SAEED AL-HILPHY Asaad Rehman Saeed Al-Hilphy, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Food Science, College of Agriculture, University of Basrah, Basra City, Iraq. Mobile: +00–96– 47702696458. E-mail: aalhilphy@yahoo.co.uk 1. INTRODUCTION Essential oils or etheric oils mean volatile oils and are obtained from plants by steam distillation method [19, 29]. Essential oils are used for medicinal and pharmaceutical purposes, food ...