Rice Insect Pests and Their Management

Rice Insect Pests and Their Management
Author: E. A. Heinrichs
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2017
Genre: TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING
ISBN: 9781351114240

This book uses the unique expertise of leading rice entomologists from Africa, Asia and the Americas to provide the first global coverage of rice insect pests. The groups of insects discussed are : Root and stem feeders, Stem borers, Rice gall midges, Leafhoppers and planthoppers, Foliage feeders and, finally, Panicle feeders. The book concludes with a discussion of integrated management of insect pests.

Insect Pests of Rice

Insect Pests of Rice
Author: M. D. Pathak
Publisher: Int. Rice Res. Inst.
Total Pages: 88
Release: 1994
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 9712200280

The Economics of Integrated Pest Control in Irrigated Rice

The Economics of Integrated Pest Control in Irrigated Rice
Author: Hermann Waibel
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 207
Release: 2012-12-06
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 364271319X

As a result of the green revolution, the use of yield-increasing inputs such as fer tilizer and pesticides became a matter of course in irrigated rice farming in Southeast Asia. Pesticides were applied liberally, both as a guarantee against crop failure and as a means of fully utilizing the existing yield potential of the crops. However, since outbreaks of pests, such as the brown planthopper (BPH) or the tungro virus, continued to occur despite the application of chemicals, a change of approach began to take place. It is now being realized more and more in Southeast Asia that crop protection problems cannot be resolved solely by the application of chemicals. In the past several years, increasing efforts have there fore been made to introduce, as a first step, supervised crop protection, leading gradually to integrated pest management (Kranz, 1982). Although the crop protection problems naturally differ in the different devel oping countries in Southeast Asia, the economic situation prevailing in these countries can nevertheless be regarded as an important common determinant: pesticide imports use up scarce foreign currency and thus compete with other imports essential to development. For the individual rice farmer, the problem is basically the same: his cash funds are limited and he must carefully weigh whether to use them for purchas ing pesticides, fertilizer or certified seed. In view of this constraint, it is becom ing necessary to abandon the purely prophylactic, routine calendar spraying and instead, employ critically timed and need-based pesticide applications.

Entomology and Pest Management

Entomology and Pest Management
Author: Larry P. Pedigo
Publisher: Waveland Press
Total Pages: 584
Release: 2021-03-15
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 1478647132

Larry Pedigo and Marlin Rice have produced the top pest management textbook on the market for decades. New co-author Rayda Krell has helped bring the book into the twenty-first century. The successful core concepts of the book—understanding pests in their environment and using an ecological approach to combat them—remain as robust as ever. Features that instructors have come to rely on have been retained, including insect diagnostic boxes with detailed information on important species and species groups and an appendix with keys to major insect orders. New material on genetically modified plant species and regional pest technologies complement concepts in basic and applied entomology. Taxonomies and systematics of insects have been updated throughout the book.

Areawide Pest Management

Areawide Pest Management
Author: Opender Koul
Publisher: CABI
Total Pages: 616
Release: 2008
Genre: Pests
ISBN: 1845933737

Pest management has long been a problem for farmers worldwide and new techniques are continually being developed to reduce the adverse effects of pest populations. The use of areawide pest management has increased dramatically over the past decade and offers potential advantages to traditional and more localized approaches. Suppression over a broad area can reduce re-infestation of previously treated areas and the specific pest management techniques may be more effective when applied over larger areas. Providing the first comprehensive discussion of areawide pest management, this book will explore the theoretical development and implementation of techniques from a worldwide perspective. Areas covered include history and development, biological and ecological impacts and recent case studies of pest management programmes.

Biology and Management of Rice Insects

Biology and Management of Rice Insects
Author: E. A. (Ed.) HEINRICHS
Publisher: Int. Rice Res. Inst.
Total Pages: 794
Release: 1994
Genre: Rice
ISBN: 8122405819

I. Fundamentals; II. Biology and ecology; III. Control tactics and strategies; IV. Implementation of rice IPM systems.

Ecological Engineering for Pest Management

Ecological Engineering for Pest Management
Author: Geoff M Gurr
Publisher: CSIRO PUBLISHING
Total Pages: 244
Release: 2004-08-03
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 0643100075

Ecological engineering is about manipulating farm habitats, making them less favourable for pests and more attractive to beneficial insects. Though they have received far less research attention and funding, ecological approaches may be safer and more sustainable than their controversial cousin, genetic engineering. This book brings together contributions from international workers leading the fast moving field of habitat manipulation, reviewing the field and paving the way towards the development and application of new pest management approaches. Chapters explore the frontiers of ecological engineering methods including molecular approaches, high tech marking and remote sensing. They also review the theoretical aspects of this field and how ecological engineering may interact with genetic engineering. The technologies presented offer opportunities to reduce crop losses to insects while reducing the use of pesticides and providing potentially valuable habitat for wildlife conservation. With contributions from the USA, UK, Germany, Switzerland, Australia, New Zealand, Kenya and Israel, this book provides comprehensive coverage of international progress towards sustainable pest management.