Integrated pest management in tropical regions / edited by Carmelo Rapisarda and Giuseppe E. Massimino Cocuzza.
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TextPublisher: Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK : CABI, 2017Copyright date: �2017Description: 1 online resource (viii, 351 pages) : illustrations, chartsContent type: - text
- computer
- online resource
- 9781780648019
- 9781780648026
- Pests -- Integrated control -- Tropics
- Arthropod pests
- Bananas
- Cereals
- Cocoa
- Coffee
- Cotton
- Crops
- Forest trees
- Insect control
- Insect pests
- Integrated pest management
- Legumes
- Nematode control
- Oil palms
- Oilseed plants
- Pest control
- Pests
- Plant parasites
- Plant parasitic nematodes
- Plant pests
- Root crops
- Sugarcane
- Tea
- Trees
- Tropics
- Tubers
- Vegetables
- 632/.60913 23
- SB950.3.T73 I58 2017eb
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction / Carmelo Rapisarda and Giuseppe E. Massimino Cocuzza -- Agroecological Foundations for Pest Management in the Tropics: Learning from Traditional Farmers / Miguel A. Altieri and Clara I. Nicholls -- Options and Challenges for Pest Control in Intensive Cropping Systems in Tropical Regions / Silvana V. Paula-Moraes, F�abio Maximiano de Andrade Silva and Alexandre Specht -- Biological Pest Control in the Tropics / Odair Aparecido Fernandes, Jos�e Gilberto de Moraes and Vitalis Wafula Wekesa -- Integrated Pest Management in Tropical Cereal Crops / George Mahuku, Everlyne Wosula and Fred Kanampiu -- Integrated Pest Management in Tropical Food Legumes / Giuseppe E. Massimino Cocuzza, Salvatore Bella and Tsedeke Abate -- Integrated Pest Management of Root and Tuber Crops in the Tropics / James Legg, Joshua Okonya and Daniel Coyne -- Integrated Pest Management in Sugarcane Cropping Systems / Fran�cois-R�egis Goebel and Amin Nikpay -- Integrated Pest Management in Cotton / Shoil M. Greenberg and Megha N. Parajulee -- Integrated Pest Management in Tropical Vegetable Crops / Luko Hilje, Edison R. Sujii and Urbano Nava-Camberos -- Integrated Pest Management and Good Agricultural Practice Recommendations in Greenhouse Crops / Abdelhaq Hanafi and Carmelo Rapisarda -- Integrated Pest Management in Banana and Plantain / Daniel L. Coyne, Thomas Dubois and Mieke S. Daneel -- Integrated Pest Management in Citrus / Giuseppe E. Massimino Cocuzza and Carmelo Rapisarda -- Integrated Pest Management in Oil Palm Plantations in Malaysia / Norman Kamarudin, Siti Ramlah A. Ali, Ramle Moslim, Zulkefli Masijan and Mohd Basri Wahid -- Integrated Pest Management in Tea, Cocoa and Coffee / Devid Guastella, Giuseppe E. Massimino Cocuzza and Carmelo Rapisarda -- Integrated Insect Pest Management in Tropical Forestry / Nitin Kulkarni.
This book contains 16 chapters focusing on the major arthropod, insect and nematode pests of tropical cereals, legumes, root and tuber crops, sugarcane, cotton, vegetables, bananas, citrus, oil palms, tea, cocoa and coffee and forest trees. The benefits of the integration of various control methods in the management of these arthropod, insect and nematode pests are also discussed.
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