Current Trends in Life Sciences: Diversified Crop Protection Keys (Farmers Friendly)

Non-hazardous chemicals, organic products, cultural practices, botanical pesticides, natural enemies of rice, wheat, sorghum, pearl millets, pulses, oilseeds, sugarcane, jute and allied fibre corps, fruits, vegetables, sugarcane, jute and allied fibre crops, fruits, vegetables, value added crops like condiments, ginger, colocasia, coconut, tea, coffee, rubber, etc. dealt in this book is a need of the day. Hon'ble Union Agriculture Minister Shri Chaturanan Mishraji mentioned in Foreword ';I am happy to see the book entitled, Tarmers Friendly Plant Protection Keys' dealing with low cost technologies for controlling tte pests by utilizing indigenous natural resources such as, turmeric, hing, cattle dung and urine etc. I hope, agricultural scientists will promote such eco-friendly pest management development of agriculture. Such low cost pest management technology may bring down the cost of cultivation and can be helpful specially for poor, small and marginal farmers'. Dr. M.S. Swaminathan, Foreworded by_ saying ';Farming is increasingly becoming a knowledge intensive vocation. As we enter the new millennium, precision farming involving ecotechnologies will be essential. I, therefore, congratulate Dr. S. Gangopadhyay in bringing out a book on Farmers Friendly Diversified Crop Protection Keys. I hope, this book can be translated in local languages and distributed'. <br><br> 1998, 500 pages, Illustrated with Including Plates in Multicolour