Integrated Disease Management: Principles and Practices

Contents: 1. Plant Health. 2. Definition, Importance and Categories of Plant Diseases. 3. Integrated Disease Management (IDM): Introduction, Definition, Concepts, Importance and Objectives of Integrated Disease Management. 4. Methods of Detection and Diagnosis of Diseases. 5. Economic Thresholds and Injury Levels. 6. Integrated Disease Management (IDM) Tools and Strategies. 7. Integrated Disease Management (IDM) Components. 8. Principles and Strategy of Plant Disease Management. 9. Methods of Plant Disease Management. 10. Spurious Pesticides. 11. Ecological Disease Management. 12.  Introduction to Conventional (Synthetic) Pesticides for Disease Management. 13.  Safety Issues in Pesticide Uses. 14. Survey, Surveillance and Forecasting of Diseases. 15. Technologies and Services Required for Integrated Disease Management. 16. Validation and Promotion of IDM Technologies. 17. Implementation, Adoption and Scaling up of IDM Strategies. 18.  Technological, Socio-economic, Institutional and Policy Issues of IDM. 19. IDM in Important Crop.