HORTICULTURE SCIENCE
DISEASE AND 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 emphasizes the growth of a healthy crop with the least possible disruption to agro-ecosystems and encourages natural pest control mechanisms.” Entomologists and ecologists have urged the adoption of IPM pest control since the 1970s. IPM allows for safer pest control.
Detailed explanation-2: -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.
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