Pests and Their Management

✍ Scribed by Omkar

• Publisher: Springer Singapore
• Year: 2018
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 1075
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book comprehensively compiles information on some of the major pests that afflict agricultural, horticultural and medicinal crops in particular as well as many polyphagous pests. Not only does this book deal with the pests of common globally produced crops it also addresses those of rarely dealt with crops such as seed spices, medicinal and aromatic plants. While the perspective of insect pests is largely Indian and South East Asian in context, the book does deal with globally problematic pests, particularly polyphagous ones. Not only will the readers be acquainted with the pests, their damaging potential and their life cycle but also with the latest methods of managements including ecofriendly measures being employed to keep pest populations at manageable levels.

The 27 chapters in the book, are grouped into four sections primarily based on crop types, viz. pest of agricultural, horticultural and medicinal crops, and polyphagous pests, making the book easy to navigate. Each of the chapters is comprehensive and well illustrated and written by academicians who have dedicated their entire lives to the study of a particular crop-pest complex. The final chapter of this book provides an overview on the principles and processes of pest management.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter ....Pages i-xvi
Pests and Their Management ( Omkar)....Pages 1-5
Front Matter ....Pages 7-7
Pests of Rice (Neha Bhatt, Sonia Joshi, S. N. Tiwari)....Pages 9-50
Pests of Maize (Pradyumn Kumar, Jaswinder Kaur, S. B. Suby, J. C. Sekhar, Soujanya P. Lakshmi)....Pages 51-79
Pests of Wheat (Neeta Gaur, Swathi Mogalapu)....Pages 81-97
Pests of Pulses (Hem Saxena, Sanjay Bandi, M. Devindrappa)....Pages 99-136
Pests of Soybean (Neeta Gaur, Swathi Mogalapu)....Pages 137-162
Insect Pests of Vegetables (Neha Kunjwal, Ravi Mohan Srivastava)....Pages 163-221
Management of Pests of Oilseed Crops (H. Basappa, P. Duraimurugan)....Pages 223-240
Pests of Sugarcane (M. V. Geetha, M. Kalyanasundaram, J. Jayaraj, M. Shanthi, V. A. Vijayashanthi, D. Hemalatha et al.)....Pages 241-310
Pests of Stored Grains (Arun Kumar Tripathi)....Pages 311-359
Insect Pests of Cotton (T. P. Rajendran, Ajanta Birah, Prasad S. Burange)....Pages 361-411
Front Matter ....Pages 413-413
Pests of Mango (Poluru Venkata Rami Reddy, B. Gundappa, A. K. Chakravarthy)....Pages 415-440
Pests of Banana (B. Padmanaban)....Pages 441-455
Pests of Apple (Akhtar Ali Khan, Abdul Rouf Wani, Farooq Ahmad Zaki, R. K. Nehru, S. S. Pathania)....Pages 457-490
Pests of Guava (Baradevanal Gundappa, M. Balaji Rajkumar, Shivshankar Singh, S. Rajan)....Pages 491-516
Pests of Grapes (N. S. Kulkarni)....Pages 517-557
Pests of Citrus (C. N. Rao, Anjitha George)....Pages 559-585
Pests of Jackfruit (M. Balaji Rajkumar, B. Gundappa, Manish Mani Tripathi, S. Rajan)....Pages 587-602
Front Matter ....Pages 603-603
Pests of Walnut (Akhtar Ali Khan, Ajaz Ahmad Kundoo)....Pages 605-647
Pests of Indian Tea Plantations (Ananda Mukhopadhyay, Soma Das, Kumar Basnet)....Pages 649-695
Pests of Seed Spices (Krishna Kant, Siya Ram Meena)....Pages 697-718
Pests of Medicinal and Aromatic Plants (Arun Kumar Tripathi)....Pages 719-822
Front Matter ....Pages 823-823
Locusts (Mohd. Kamil Usmani, Shahnila Usmani)....Pages 825-869
Aphids (S. Chakrabarti)....Pages 871-908
Termites (N. G. Kumar)....Pages 909-971
Rodents (G. Govinda Raj)....Pages 973-1013
Insect Pest Management (Bhupendra Kumar, Omkar)....Pages 1015-1078

✦ Subjects

Life Sciences; Entomology; Agriculture; Plant Ecology; Plant Sciences