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Insect Pests of Cotton and Their Management
2020Cotton is a cash and industrial crop in many parts of the world. Nowadays, production of cotton is very low, and issues of yield stagnation exist in many developing countries. Major causes of lower yields are climate change soil salinity, lack of adaptation of agronomic practices, pathological, and entomological problems in nature.
Muhammad Anees, Sarfraz Ali Shad
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2018
Cotton, the king of natural fibres since antiquities, has been entwined in human civilization. It is the most popularly used fibre for clothing and for a host of other purposes since ancient era in India. Cotton is a commercial crop that has deep significance in the economy of the farmers, textile industry and the country where it is grown.
T. P. Rajendran +2 more
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Cotton, the king of natural fibres since antiquities, has been entwined in human civilization. It is the most popularly used fibre for clothing and for a host of other purposes since ancient era in India. Cotton is a commercial crop that has deep significance in the economy of the farmers, textile industry and the country where it is grown.
T. P. Rajendran +2 more
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Outlook on Agriculture, 1989
Despite competition from other natural and man-made fibres cotton remains the world's most important textile, of great economic importance in many of the countries in which it is grown. It is prone to a number of pests which reduce yield and the control of these presents many problems. While integrated pest management can solve many of these, some use
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Despite competition from other natural and man-made fibres cotton remains the world's most important textile, of great economic importance in many of the countries in which it is grown. It is prone to a number of pests which reduce yield and the control of these presents many problems. While integrated pest management can solve many of these, some use
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Integrated Management of Cotton Insect Pests in India
Outlook on Agriculture, 1998In India, cotton ( Gossypium spp) is an important fibre crop. However, on a world basis, productivity is quite low (average of 280 kg/ha). The major reasons for such low yields are drought and attacks of insect pests and plant diseases. Pesticides are therefore widely used to such an extent that >50% of total production cost is attributed to ...
V.T. Sundaramurthy, R.T. Gahukar
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Systems Approach to Cotton Insect Pest Management
1976Cotton is a major world agricultural crop cultivated for the harvest of lint fibers utilized extensively in the manufacture of apparel and household and industrial goods. Although linked biologically to the production of cotton fibers, cottonseeds are more than a mere byproduct of the cotton harvest.
D. W. DeMichele, Dale G. Bottrell
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Chemical Control of Cotton Insect Pests in Thailand
Tropical Pest Management, 1981Abstract A continuing research programme of chemical control on major cotton pests in Thailand has been conducted since 1960 to discover the most effective insecticides. Before 1978 twelve systemic insecticides for controlling the cotton leafhopper, Amrasca devastans (Dist.), and the cotton aphid, Aphisgossypii Glov., and eight insecticides for ...
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Response of Cotton to Damage by Insect Pests in Australia: Pest Management Trials
Journal of Economic Entomology, 1992Twenty pest management experiments were done between 1985 and 1988 at 11 sites in the Namoi valley of NSW, Australia, on four varieties of cotton, Gossypium hirsutum L. In every experiment, the control treatment, consisting of the standard action thresholds for the common insect pests of the region, was compared with higher early season thresholds ...
K. D. Brook, A. B. Hearn, C. F. Kelly
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Different transfer learning approaches for insect pest classification in cotton
Applied Soft Computingpub
Raul Toscano-Miranda +5 more
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Integrated Pest Management for Insect Pests of Cotton in Less Developed Countries
2004Small-scale farm enterprises in less developed countries (LDCs) now account for three quarters of the world cotton production of around 21 million tonnes of lint grown on 31 million ha (ICAC 2002a). Sixty-three of the world’s 69 significant producer countries are LDCs; 4 in central America, 8 in South America, 3 in North Africa, 12 in West Africa, 12 ...
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Seed Treatment of Cotton Against Diseases and Insect Pests
Outlook on Agriculture, 1959Research on the seed dressing of cotton has been highly rewarding. All the main cotton-growing countries are steadily developing the techniques that best meet their particular requirements, and seed-borne diseases that once took a heavy toll of the crop are now being well controlled.
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