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Organic Insect Pest Management: A Sustainable Approach for the Indian Farming Community


Balaga Mohan Ganesh, Md. Abbas Ahmad, Somala Karthik, Battu Jabez Raju
Pages: 127-150
ISBN: 978-93-5834-910-8


Latest Trends in Agricultural Entomology (Volume -2)

Latest Trends in Agricultural Entomology
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Abstract

Our food is as healthy as it is grown however in the current century; it is like poison on our plate as our entire globe is running after the toxic pesticides, artificially generated substances and solutions. Due to immense commercialization of agriculture we had a very negative effect on the environment. The use of pesticides has led to enormous levels of chemical buildup in environment, soil, water, air, animals and even in our bodies. The pesticides which we are using in our farming communities will only kill 1 percent of insect pest and remaining 99 percent is going to be accumulated in the water, soil and air which ultimately lead to depletion of health of the mother Earth by becoming serious toxic pollutants in the Environment. In the name of growing more to feed the earth, it has taken the wrong road of unsustainability. In order to minimize the effect of these toxic pesticides, a significant portion of gardeners and farmers have to turn their fields and farms towards an organic or natural sources and manage insect pest, diseases through organically or natural manner. In addition, there is also a need for extreme usage of high recommended organic fertilizers. Therefore, deliberately this is where complete organic farming comes in with pure sustainable approach for the healthy Agro-ecosystem and safe pest management. Pest control in organic agriculture can be obtained through prevention and curative measure, but modern agriculture must be focused on the prevention. This chapter gives you brief information about organic pest control with many important practical data, judiciously documentations and also advance technologies with integration to organic pest management that has been followed all over the world.

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