Integrated Pest Management in Tropical Regions.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (438 pages)
- CABI Plant Protection Series .
- CABI Plant Protection Series .
Front Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Contributors -- 1 Introduction -- Carmelo Rapisarda and Giuseppe E. Massimino Cocuzza -- PART I: OVERVIEW OF PEST MANAGEMENT IN THE TROPICS -- 2 Agroecological Foundations for Pest Management in the Tropics: Learning from Traditional Farmers -- Miguel A. Altieri and Clara I. Nicholls -- 3 Options and Challenges for Pest Control in Intensive Cropping Systems in Tropical Regions -- Silvana V. Paula-Moraes, Fábio Maximiano de Andrade Silva and Alexandre Specht -- 4 Biological Pest Control in the Tropics -- Odair Aparecido Fernandes, José Gilberto de Moraes and Vitalis Wafula Wekesa -- PART II: INTEGRATED PEST MANAGEMENT APPROACHES FOR TROPICAL CROPS -- 5 Integrated Pest Management in Tropical Cereal Crops -- George Mahuku, Everlyne Wosula and Fred Kanampiu -- 6 Integrated Pest Management in Tropical Food Legumes -- Giuseppe E. Massimino Cocuzza, Salvatore Bella and Tsedeke Abate -- 7 Integrated Pest Management of Root and Tuber Crops in the Tropics -- James Legg, Joshua Okonya and Daniel Coyne -- 8 Integrated Pest Management in Sugarcane Cropping Systems -- François-Régis Goebel and Amin Nikpay -- 9 Integrated Pest Management in Cotton -- Shoil M. Greenberg and Megha N. Parajulee -- 10 Integrated Pest Management in Tropical Vegetable Crops -- Luko Hilje, Edison R. Sujii and Urbano Nava-Camberos -- 11 Integrated Pest Management and Good Agricultural Practice Recommendations in Greenhouse Crops -- Abdelhaq Hanafi and Carmelo Rapisarda -- 12 Integrated Pest Management in Banana and Plantain -- Daniel L. Coyne, Thomas Dubois and Mieke S. Daneel -- 13 Integrated Pest Management in Citrus -- Giuseppe E. Massimino Cocuzza and Carmelo Rapisarda -- 14 Integrated Pest Management in Oil Palm Plantations in Malaysia. Norman Kamarudin, Siti Ramlah A. Ali, Ramle Moslim, Zulkefli Masijan and Mohd Basri Wahid -- 15 Integrated Pest Management in Tea, Cocoa and Coffee -- Devid Guastella, Giuseppe E. Massimino Cocuzza and Carmelo Rapisarda -- 16 Integrated Insect Pest Management in Tropical Forestry -- Nitin Kulkarni -- Index -- Back Cover.
This book provides up-to-date, comprehensive coverage of research and applications of IPM in tropical regions. It explores the agro-ecological framework of IPM and emerging technologies in chemical and biological methods central to pest control, and by a crop-based approach details IPM applications in tropical food crops, fibre crops and forests.