Product Description

This book explores ecologically sound and innovative techniques in insect pest management in field and protected crops. From a general overview of pest management to new biorational insecticides such as insect growth regulators, and new strategies to reduce resistance, the coverage is entirely up-to-date. Other chapters describe advances in pest management of important crops such as cotton, corn, oilseed rape and various vegetables.

Product Description
This text covers significant research findings to ascertain the most appropriate methods of pest control against tropical perennial pests. ... Read more

Product Description

The second volume of the IMPD series describes aspects related to the most important phytoparasitic nematodes, considering the integration of biological control methods with other management practices and technologies, including the use of predatory nematodes and microbial rhizosphere antagonists. A focus is given on regional issues. A review on nematode management in cotton is integrated by a chapter on management of nematodes on wheat. New technologies are also revised.

Product Description
"Successful Implementation of Integrated Pest Management for Agricultural Crops" highlights success stories in the use of integrated pest management (IPM) in a non-technical format. The book addresses concerns that led to the development of IPM and the history of its implementation and support from the US government in the 1970s. Successful IPM programmes for representative commodities are discussed in detail, especially in areas that traditionally use vast quantities of pesticides and fertilizer, such as corn, soybeans and cotton. The book also takes a detailed look at the American Farm Bureau's policy on IPM. The sociology of adopting new methods is examined, and interviews with farmers demonstrating how they adapt IPM to their individual situations are presented. Chapters on the IPM Forum and International Resistant Pest Management Congress and the National Coalition on IPM highlight co-operative efforts between the government and regulated community to reduce unnecessary pesticide use. Markey surveys of consumer attitudes toward organic produce and the importance of IPM in the long-term goal of providing food for the world's needs are considered as well. ... Read more

Product Description
This book is mainly directed towards postgraduate students andprofessionals in the field of research and implementation ofintegrated pest and disease management programmes in greenhouse crops.After presenting the major pests and diseases that affect greenhousevegetable and ornamental crops, several chapters deal with the toolsfor designing and implementing IP&DM in protected cultivation withparticular emphasis on biological control. Current implementation andthe future of IP&DM in the most important protected crops world-wideare presented in the concluding chapters.
Protected cultivation is practised in many hundreds of thousands ofhectares throughout the world under quite different social, economicand technical conditions. Contributions to the book reflect such adiversity of situations: from the high-technology glasshouses ofnorthern Europe and America to the simple plastic tunnels of theMediterranean area and temperate eastern Asia. Furthermore, theeditors have entrusted each chapter to authors whose activity andperspectives could be complementary: pathologists and entomologists,from private and public sectors, and from differentiated geographicalregions. Probably no book published to date has offered such a diverseyet integrated approach to pest and disease control in greenhousecrops.
The book originated from an international course taught at theInternational Centre for Advanced Mediterranean Agronomic Studies inZaragoza, Spain. The authors are specialists from universities,research institutions and companies in Europe, America, Asia, Africaand Oceania. ... Read more

Product Description

The fourth volume of the IPMD Series covers, in three Sections, emerging issues in the integrated management of main nematode parasites of fruit, tree and forest crops. The chapters provide basic data about the crops concerned, listing main nematode threats, in order to facilitate their detection and management. Special attention is given to the management strategies as experienced by farmers, nematologists and consultants, in different areas of the world, including exploitation of plant resistance sources and integrated or organic management.

The first Section covers key nematode parasites of tropical fruit crops, including banana, cocoa, coffee, citrus and other tropical crops, and the related management options. In the second Section, nematode problems of grapevine and other Mediterranean crops such as pistachio, Prunus spp. and olive are revised. Epidemiolgy data and management options are given, ranging from the status of grapevine resistance to vector species, to available chemicals, plant quarantine schemes and virus vectors control tools. In the third final Section, an updated review of Pine Wilt Nematode is provided, with new data on the threat represented by its spreading in Western Europe. The book approaches a broad range of subjects in a traditional way, with dedicated and detailed chapters, written by experienced nematologists, on defined topics. This approach provides a focus on the nematological issue of interest or that the reader has to afford, allowing the problem identification and illustrating the solutions developed and experienced by the authors. The general aim of the book, in an integration effort with Vol. 2 of the same IPMD series, is to provide updated background data together with a range of solutions for important nematode pests, worldwide.

The volume is directed to students, technicians, extensions and scientists, providing contents of a professional level. Basic concepts and practical examples are provided to enable the reader to analyse and act in relation to his own conditions, crop environment and nematode population parameters. Among the features and benefits of the book also figure practical management data, updated bibliographies and exhaustive illustrations.

Product Description
This digital document is an article from SaskBusiness, published by Sunrise Publishing Ltd. on November 1, 2001. The length of the article is 806 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

Citation Details
Title: New Ways to Battle Crop Pests.(Integrated Pest Management project)(Brief Article)
Author: Kevin Hursh
Publication: SaskBusiness (Magazine/Journal)
Date: November 1, 2001
Publisher: Sunrise Publishing Ltd.
Volume: 22Issue: 7Page: 6

Article Type: Brief Article

Distributed by Thomson Gale ... Read more

Product Description
This volume is produced from digital images created through the University of Michigan University Library's large-scale digitization efforts. The Library seeks to preserve the intellectual content of items in a manner that facilitates and promotes a variety of uses. The digital reformatting process results in an electronic version of the original text that can be both accessed online and used to create new print copies. The Library also understands and values the usefulness of print and makes reprints available to the public whenever possible. This book and hundreds of thousands of others can be found in the HathiTrust, an archive of the digitized collections of many great research libraries. For access to the University of Michigan Library's digital collections, please see http://www.lib.umich.edu and for information about the HathiTrust, please visit http://www.hathitrust.org ... Read more