Theory and Practice of Integrated Pest Management

Ramesh Arora · Balwinder Singh · A.K. Dhawan

జన 2017 · Scientific Publishers

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 The dominance of insects in the world fauna has made them the humanity's greatest rival for the world's food resources, both directly by eating the plants cultivated for food and indirectly as vectors of pathogens attacking these plants. Agricultural scientists and especially entomologists have strived hard to develop a diversity of cultural, mechanical, biological and chemical weapons during the last more than two centuries to gain dominance over insects. However, there is evidence that insect pest problems have escalated with an increasing cropping intensity and with the use of agrochemicals inherent in modern agriculture. Consequently, Indian plant protection scientists have intensified research on the development of pest management tactics and effective pest management systems have been designed for all the important crops in the country.

This book, consisting of 29 chapters, draws together the diverse literature on the subject of insect pest management in agriculture and contains contributions written by scientists having extensive experience with insect pest problems in Indian agriculture. The first half of the book is devoted to the principles and components of pest management including factors affecting pest populations, construction of life tables, coevolution of insects and plants, pest forecasting, pesticides, IGRs, botanicals, entomopathogenic nematodes and molecular approaches, etc. The different tactics for the management of major insect pests of principal agricultural crops of India, viz. rice, maize, wheat, forage crops, cotton, sugarcane, vegetables, fruits, oilseeds, pulse crops, jute, mesta and tobacco have been discussed in the second half of the book.

The book contains a wealth of information on all aspects of insect pest management in agriculture under Indian conditions and would prove indispensable for students, teachers and researchers in agricultural entomology in India and other Asian countries.

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Ramesh Arora

Dr Ramesh Arora is Senior Entomologist in the Department of Entomology, Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana and obtained his Ph.D. in Entomology from the same institute in 1990. He has been working on development and implementation of IPM programmes for the last more than three decades. He has more than 200 publications including 65 research articles, 10 books and 28 book chapters to his credit. He has been Editor-in- Chief (1995-2003) of the Indian Journal of Ecology and is associated with a number of professional societies.

Balwinder Singh

Dr. Balwinder Singh is working as Professor-cum-Head, Department of Entomology, Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana. He did his Ph.D in Entomology with specialization in Insect Toxicology in 1984 from PAU, Ludhiana. He was Commonwealth Fellow at Rothamsted Research Harpenden, UK for six months. He has more than 28 years experience in teaching and research in the field of pesticide residues. He has handled many research projects funded by various international and national agencies. He has more than 200 publications to his credit. He has also edited three books and contributed 11 chapters in different books. He is President of the Indian Society for the Advancement of Insect Science and also the Vice-President, Society of Pesticide Science, India. He is acting as a reviewer for number of international journals related to field pesticide residues. He is associated with a number of professional societies at the National level.

A.K. Dhawan

Dr. A.K. Dhawan, Former Professor-cum-Head, Department of Entomology, Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana started his career an Assistant Entomologist in 1973. He has more than 302 research papers, 10 books, 22 chapters in books, 31 review articles and 121 research papers in national and international conference to his credit. He is a fellow of 4 professional societies, life members of 11 professional societies, referee of 7 scientific journals of entomology and acted as Vice President, Joint Secretary and Managing Editors in different professional societies. He is at present General Secretary of Indian Ecological Society and Society for Sustainable Cotton Production and is also Managing Editor of Indian Journal of Ecology. He participated in 8 international and 63 national workshops/conferences. He has won several awards including the ICAR Team award in "Insecticide Resistance Management in Cotton" and National Award for "Dissemination of IPM Technology Through Street Play" in 2004. He was awarded Role of Honour and Best Extension Worker Award in 2008 and 2010 by PAU, Ludhiana. He did a commendable work in transfer of technology on IPM of cotton recommended by Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana among the cotton growers of Punjab.