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Sustainable pest management for cotton production. A review [PDF]
Agronomy for Sustainable Development, 2008 Cotton cultivation, often highlighted for its excessive consumption of plant protection products, is taken as a model to illustrate the development of the ideas and practices of crop protection over the last 50 years. Cotton is grown in 69 countries on 30–35 million hectares and the production exceeded 20 million tones of lint in recent years.
Deguine, Jean-Philippe +2 more
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Insects, 2020 Honeydew is a watery fluid excreted by plant sap-feeding insects. It is a waste product for the insect hosts. However, it plays important roles for other organisms, such as serving as a nutritional source for beneficial insects and bacteria, as well as ...
Jinghua Zhu +6 more
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Good Governance: A Framework for Implementing Sustainable Land Management, Applied to an Agricultural Case in Northeast-Brazil [PDF]
, 2019 Land management needs to cope with persistent environmental and societal changes. This requires functional governance systems. The purpose of this research is to develop a good governance framework for the implementation of sustainable land management ...
Guschal, Maike +4 more
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Overview of Sustainable Pest Management
, 2021 Chemical pesticides are the dominant source of soil contamination. Evidence shows non-targeted species gets impacted more due to chemical pesticides than targeted species. Only about 1% of pesticide reaches the target pest and the rest of it induces contamination of the environment (Amoabeng 2014, Tyler and Miller, 2004).
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A total system approach to sustainable pest management [PDF]
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 1997 A fundamental shift to a total system approach for crop protection is urgently needed to resolve escalating economic and environmental consequences of combating agricultural pests. Pest management strategies have long been dominated by quests for “silver bullet” products to control pest outbreaks.
Lewis, W.J. +3 more
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Insects, 2020 The diamondback moth, Plutella xylostella (L.) is an important pest of cruciferous crops worldwide. It has developed resistance to many conventional and novel insecticide classes.
Jun Shen +6 more
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Biopesticides: a sustainable approach for pest management
SAARC Journal of Agriculture, 2022 Biopesticides are an important component of Integrated Pest Management (IPM) programs for insect pest control since they are more natural, environmentally friendly, safer than chemical pesticides and have relatively no or little effect on non-target organisms.
Sovit Parajuli +3 more
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Predatory functional response and fitness parameters of Orius strigicollis Poppius when fed Bemisia tabaci and Trialeurodes vaporariorum as determined by age-stage, two-sex life table [PDF]
PeerJ, 2020 Background The polyphagous predatory bug O. strigicollis is an active predator used to control thrips and aphids. The whitefly species Bemisia tabaci and Trialeurodes vaporariorum are voracious pests of different economic agricultural crops and ...
Shakeel Ur Rehman +7 more
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Insects, 2019 The Angoumois grain moth, Sitotroga cerealella (Olivier, 1789) (Lepidoptera: Gelechiidae), is primarily a pest of stored products, that feeds inside the grain as larvae inducing significant economic loss in various stored commodities.
Meng-Meng Chang +5 more
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Insects, 2020 Riptortus pedestris (Heteroptera: Alydidae), an important crop pest, is capable of entering reproductive adult diapause under short-day photoperiods. Though the physiological aspects of adult diapause have been well studied in this species, little is ...
Abdul Hafeez +4 more
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