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Integrated Pest Management in Tropical Regions.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: CABI Plant Protection SeriesPublisher: Oxford : CAB International, 2017Copyright date: ©2017Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (438 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781780648026
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Integrated Pest Management in Tropical RegionsDDC classification:
  • 632.90913
LOC classification:
  • SB950.3.T73 .I58 2017
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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.
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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.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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