Integrated Pest Management Principles and Practice
In the 21st century, mankind is confronted with the Herculean task of providing food and environmental security to a burgeoning population, particularly in developing countries. In India, the population is growing at an alarming rate of around 2.5%/year. This makes it necessary that food grain...
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| Tóm tắt: | In the 21st century, mankind is confronted with the Herculean task of providing food and
environmental security to a burgeoning population, particularly in developing countries.
In India, the population is growing at an alarming rate of around 2.5%/year. This makes it
necessary that food grain production should also increase at the same rate or even faster.
This has necessitated accelerated efforts on the part of agricultural scientists to develop
high-yielding production technology and intensifi cation in crop production practices.
Their efforts have resulted in the development of high-yielding cultivars coupled with
other components of crop production technology. Consequently, a boost in food grain as
well as vegetables, fruit and fi bre crop production has occurred. A signifi cant rise in food
grain production alone was recorded from 50 million t in the 1950s to more than 230
million t in 2008–2009. Even with this increase in food grain production, farmers were not
able to realise the full potential of crop yield, one of the reasons being the heavy losses
caused by insect and other arthropod pests. Traditional methods of crop production and
protection became untenable with the introduction of new cultivars and the development
of organic synthetic insecticides. The use of these insecticides became increasingly popular
with farmers because of the spectacular results and easy method of application under
different sets of conditions. The widespread use of insecticides, for longer periods and over
a larger acreage, however, was not free from limitations. The development of insecticide
resistant, resurgence, elevation of secondary pests to a status of primary importance,
deleterious effects on non-target organisms, pollution of the environment and rising costs
of application are all associated with the use of synthetic organic insecticides. This has
necessitated a change in the concept and practice of pest control, if it is to contribute
positively. During the last four decades, substantial information has accumulated to suggest
that pest control must be extended beyond any single method to a system based on the
principles of applied ecology. The emphasis at present is to promote a new paradigm to be:
(i) safe for growers, farm workers and consumers; (ii) cost-effective and easy to adopt and
integrate with other production practices; (iii) sustainable in the long term and without
adverse environmental, economic and social consequences; and (iv) with ecosystems as
the ecological focus. The availability of modern tools and transgenic crop protection
technology has opened new vistas in the vast fi eld of pest management. All these issues
form the focus of this book, where they have been discussed by eminent scientists who are
authorities in their respective fi elds. This book is an endeavour to cover integrated pest
management (IPM) from multidisciplinary, multicountry and multifaceted components in terms of holistic and unifi ed IPM systems and its implementation in various fi elds
concerned with pest management. This book is aimed to serve as a reference book for
students, teachers, researchers, extension functionaries and policy planners associated
with IPM. It can also be used as excellent reading material for graduate and post-graduate
courses. The book deals not only with integration of pest management tactics but also with
integration of different disciplines to provide a holistic view of IPM. Beyond IPM, pest
management without pesticides in the tropics with empirical evidence is discussed. The
book is an inter-disciplinary endeavour to document the content and process areas of IPM
in industrialized, Green Revolution and subsistence agriculture systems and is the fi rst of
its kind where IPM has been discussed from different perspectives, documenting divergent
thoughts to integrate their inferences to cater for the needs of scientists, graduate students,
extension education specialists and policy makers associated with IPM research and
development, implementation, evaluation and planning. |
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