Management of Non-Insect & Storage Pests (Paper Code: 17010724)

Distribution, host range, biology, population dynamics and pattern of damage of agriculturally important rodents and other mammals, birds, mites, slugs and snails

Management strategies: physical (trapping, acoustic and visual) and chemical (poisons, repellents, fumigants and anticoagulants)

Historical development of storage entomology

Important pests associated with stored grains, their systematic position, identification, distribution, host range, biology, ecology, nature and extent of damage, and their management

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Identification of important rodents, birds, mites and other pests

damage assessment, population estimation and control operations of different pests

collection, identification and familiarization with the stored grain pests and damage caused by them

demonstration of fumigation technique

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