Advances In Integrated Pest And Disease Management In Horticultural Crops

Integrated pest management (IPM) is a term most people involved in horticulture will have heard. IPM is a package of interchangeable good agricultural practices that can be used to manage pests in the crop. The most important thing to note is the word integrated. Key practices which need to be observed for IPM are sanitation and hygiene, monitoring, record keeping, using less chemicals and more common sense and choosing newer chemicals that tend to be pest specific or of lower toxicity. In India, horticulture has become a commercially viable export oriented programme with several value-added products. However, the most limiting factor to horticulture are pests, therefore the book brings out viable and environment friendly integrated pest management strategies to boost horticulture production. The present book deals with pests and diseases of fruit crops and their management using regulatory, physical, cultural, chemical, biological, host resistance and integrated methods. This new four volume set book will be the leading and comprehensive book set of its kind and the best introductory horticulture book available today that contains the latest developments and newest technologies. Researchers, teachers, students, exporters, farmers and industrial personnel connected with horticulture will find this book as a very important resource guide with high application value.