Integrated Pest & Disease Management (Paper Code: 17010723)

Integrated Pest Management (IPM): history, definition and concept

concept of economic injury level and economic threshold, pest monitoring and surveillance

Different tools of IPM including physical, mechanical, cultural, biological, host plant resistance, botanical, chemical, biorationals and biotechnological approaches

Integration of different IPM tactics; decision making systems; potential of IPM, its implementation and constraints; successful examples in IPM

Integrated Disease Management (IDM): concept, advantage and importance, components of IDM their limitations and implications; development of IDM – basic principles, IDM application and implementation in some important crops; cost benefit and risk benefit ratio

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Demonstration of pest management practices

use of pheromone, colour, sticky and light traps for monitoring and surveillance of pests

study of IPM module in cotton, rice, sugarcane, maize, fruits and vegetables; application of cultural, chemical and bio-control agents

their compatibility and integration in IDM, demonstration of IDM in some crops as project work

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