Integrated Pest Management in Tropical Regions
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Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10
1780648006
ISBN-13
9781780648002
Publisher
CABI Publishing
Imprint
CABI Publishing
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Dec 11th, 2017
Print length
360 Pages
Weight
1,084 grams
Dimensions
23.80 x 25.10 x 2.40 cms
Product Classification:
Pest controlTropical agriculture: practice & techniques
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This book provides up-to-date, comprehensive coverage of research and applications of IPM in tropical regions. It explores the agro-ecological framework of IPM and emerging technologies in chemical and biological methods central to pest control, and by a crop-based approach details IPM applications in tropical food crops, fibre crops and forests.
This book provides up-to-date and comprehensive coverage of the research and application of Integrated Pest Management (IPM) in tropical regions. The first section explores the agro-ecological framework that represents the foundations of IPM, in addition to emerging technologies in chemical and biological methods that are core to pest control in tropical crops. The second section follows a crop-based approach and provides details of current IPM applications in the main tropical food crops (such as cereals, legumes, root and tuber crops, sugarcane, vegetables, banana and plantain, citrus, oil palm, tea, cocoa and coffee) and also fibre crops (such as cotton) and tropical forests. Integrated Pest Management in Tropical Regions:· Explores the techniques aimed at controlling pests in agro-ecosystems sustainably while reducing secondary effects on the environment and on plant, animal and human health· Contextualizes IPM within our current knowledge of climate change and the global movement of organisms· Covers integrated strategies to contains pests in major tropical food crops, fibre crops and trees · Discusses options and challenges for pest control in tropical agriculture
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