Theory and Practice of Integrated Pest Management

Contents: Preface.1. Integrated Pest Management: Concept and Approaches/Ramesh Arora and A.K. Dhawan. 2. Factors Affecting Insect-Pest Populations/P.S. Sarao and M.S. Mahal. 3. Construction of Life-Tables for Insect Species/M.S. Mahal. 4. Co-evolution of Insects and Plants/Ramesh Arora. 5. Role of Pesticides in Management of Crop Pests/Balwinder Singh. 6. Molecular Approaches in Entomological Research/V.K. Gupta and Vikas Jindal. 7. Potential of Insect Growth Regulators in Insect Pest Management/Gursharan Singh and K.S. Suri. 8. Botanical Pesticides in Insect Pest Management/Naveen Aggarwal. 9. Pesticide Resistance: Monitoring, Mechanism and Management/B.K. Kang. 10. Recent Developments in Pesticide Formulation Technology/P.S. Shera and Ramesh Arora.11. Pesticide Application Equipment/I.P.S. Sandhu.12. Role of Entomopathogenic nematodes in Insect Pest Management/Naveen Aggarwal. 13. Implications of Biotype Development in Host Plant Resistance/D.R. Sharma and R.S. Gill.14. Role of Insect Surveillance in Integrated Pest Management/D.S. Brar and Vijay Kumar.15. Role of Insect-Pest Forecasting in Integrated Pest Management/M.S. Mahal, Beant Singh, P.S. Sarao and Sandeep Singh.16. Information Technology in Integrated Pest Management/A.K. Dhawan, G.K. Taggar and R.S. Gill. 17. Management of Insect Pests of Cotton: Retrospect and Prospect/A.K. Dhawan, Vijay Kumar and P.S. Shera.18. Integrated Management of Insect-Pests in Rice/P.S. Sarao and M.S. Mahal.19. Emerging Technologies for Integrated Pest Management in Forage Crops/Ramesh Arora. 20. Management of Insect Pest Complex in Maize/Vijay Kumar and Uma Kanta. 21. Changing Scenario of Insect Pests of Wheat and their Management/Beant Singh. 22. Management of Insect Pests in Citrus/P.K. Arora and D.R. Sharma. 23. Management of Insect Pests in Fruit Crops other than Citrus/D.R. Sharma, P.K. Arora and Sandeep Singh. 24. Management of Insect Pests of Vegetable Crops in Net House/Sandeep Kaur. 25. Management of Insect Pests of Oilseeds Crops/Sarwan Kumar. 26. Integrated Management of Insect Pests of Rabi Pulses/G.K. Taggar and Ravinder Singh. 27. Integrated Pest Management in Kharif Pulses/Ravinder Singh, G.K. Taggar and H.K. Cheema. 28. Pest Management in Jute and Mesta/T. Ramasubramanian and S. Satpathy. 29. Management of Insect Pests of Tobacco/A.D. Patel, D.M. Mehta and L.V. Ghetiya.

The dominance of insects in the world fauna has made them the humanity's greatest rival for the world's food resources, both directly by eating the plants cultivated for food and indirectly as vectors of pathogens attacking these plants. Agricultural scientists and especially entomologists have strived hard to develop a diversity of cultural, mechanical, biological and chemical weapons during the last more than two centuries to gain dominance over insects. However, there is evidence that insect pest problems have escalated with an increasing cropping intensity and with the use of agrochemicals inherent in modern agriculture. Consequently, Indian plant protection scientists have intensified research on the development of pest management tactics and effective pest management systems have been designed for all the important crops in the country.

This book, consisting of 29 chapters, draws together the diverse literature on the subject of insect pest management in agriculture and contains contributions written by scientists having extensive experience with insect pest problems in Indian agriculture. The first half of the book is devoted to the principles and components of pest management including factors affecting pest populations, construction of life tables, co-evolution of insects and plants, pest forecasting, pesticides, IGRs, botanicals, entomopathogenic nematodes and molecular approaches, etc. The different tactics for the management of major insect pests of principal agricultural crops of India, viz. rice, maize, wheat, forage crops, cotton, sugarcane, vegetables, fruits, oilseeds, pulse crops, jute, mesta and tobacco have been discussed in the second half of the book.

The book contains a wealth of information on all aspects of insect pest management in agriculture under Indian conditions and would prove indispensable for students, teachers and researchers in agricultural entomology in India and other Asian countries.