TREE DISEASES AND PESTS
INTEGRATED PEST MANAGEMENT
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Question
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Pest identification is a component of IPM and its purpose to
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Record keeping
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Guidelines for when management action is needed
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Monitoring and assessing pest numbers and damage
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Using knowledge about the pest’s habits, life cycle, needs and dislikes.
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -IPM. “Integrated Pest Management is an ecological approach in which utilization of all available techniques of pest control to reduce and maintain the pest population at levels below economic injury level”. Hence the new concept or approach is based on the principles of managing the pest rather than eradicating them.
Detailed explanation-2: -It combines biological, chemical, physical and crop specific (cultural) management strategies and practices to grow healthy crops and minimize the use of pesticides, reducing or minimizing risks posed by pesticides to human health and the environment for sustainable pest management.
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