Table Of ContentBiointensive
Integrated Pest Management
for Horticultural Crops
Biointensive
Integrated Pest Management
for Horticultural Crops
Chief Editor
Anil Kumar
Assistant Professor-cum-Scientist
Department of Entomology
Sugarcane Research Institute
Dr. Rajendra Prasad Central Agricultural University
Pusa-848125, Samastipur, Bihar, India
Associate Editors
Swati Saha
Scientist
ICAR-IARI Regional Station
Pune, Maharashtra, India
Jaipal Singh Choudhary
Scientist
ICAR-Research Complex for Eastern Region
Research Centre, Ranchi, Jharkhand, India
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Foreword
Horticulture sector includes a wide range of crops namely fruit crops, vegetables
crops, ornamental crops, medicinal and aromatic crops. It has improved economic
status of farmers and increases the nutrient availability of human being. The
horticultural crop production has become a key driver for economic development
in many of the states in the country and it contributes 30.4 per cent to GDP of
agriculture. Globally, India is the second largest producer of fruits and vegetables.
Though, India achieved self-sufficiency in food grain production, but still the
country has not achieved self-sufficiency in production of horticultural crops.
The challenge before the crop protection scientist is to increase yields from the
existing land without harming the environment and resource base and to reduce
losses caused by pests. The future strategies should, therefore, be carefully planned
to sustain production with least disruption to the agro ecosystem. There has been
an increasing demand to not only produce larger quantities, but also towards
sustainable agriculture where products are simultaneously environmental friendly,
socially fair and economically beneficial. This can be achieved by adopting eco
friendly (Biointensive Integrated Pest management ) strategy. It includes ecological
and economic development into agricultural design and decision making system
and also addressing public concern about environmental quality and food safety.
Biointensive Integrated Pest management strategy begins with steps to accurately
diagnose the nature and source of pest problems, and then relies on a range of
preventive tactics and biological controls to keep pest populations within acceptable
limits. Reduced-risk pesticides are used if other tactics have not been adequately
effective, as a last resort, and with care to minimize risks. In this context, the
present book “Biointensive Integrated Pest Management for Horticultural
Crops” edited by Dr. Anil Kumar as Chief Editor and Swati Saha, and Jaipal Singh
Choudhary as Associate Editors, will be useful to teachers, researchers, students
and extension workers.
I hope this publication will be of great value to those who are engaged in growing
horticultural crops. I appreciate the meticulous efforts of editors in bringing out
such an useful publication.
Date: 12.12.19 (S.P. Singh)
Professor & Head
Department of Entomology
Dr. Rajendra Prasad Central Agricultural University
Pusa-848 125, Samastipur, Bihar
Preface
In fact insect pest problem rapidly increases in current scenario due to changing
climatic condition, indiscriminate use of insecticides which leads to decrease
biodiversity of natural enemies and effect on human being. There is a need of hour
to create awareness for promoting environmentally sustainable horticultural
production.
The book, Biointensive Integrated Pest Management for Horticultural Crops
has been planned with chapters and the scope of each chapter has been specified
by the author. The book deals with the most recent biointensive integrated approaches
utilizing components such as bioagents, botanicals and microbial pesticides, physical
and mechanical methods, cultural methods such as crop rotation, summer ploughing,
intercropping, pruning, mulching, spacing, planting date, trap cropping, etc.,
biorational chemicals and tolerant cultivars. It is our great pleasure to express our
sincere thanks to the publisher, New India Publishing Agency for producing this
book in a systemic way with quality within a period of time.
It is earnestly hoped that the book will be a useful reading to all those who are
interested in Biointensive Integrated Pest Management for Horticultural Crops.
We request all the readers for rendering valuable suggestions for future improvement
of this edition.
Date: 12.12.2019 Anil Kumar
Chief Editor
Contents
Foreword ................................................................................................... v
Preface ..................................................................................................... vii
List of Contributors .................................................................................. xi
Introduction
1. Scope and Importance of Horticultural Crops .............................. 1
Swati Saha, Udit Kumar, Tarak Nath Saha and Kavya Shree
2. Biointensive Integrated Pest Management................................13
Anil Kumar and S.K. Sahoo
Fruit Crops
3. Biointensive Integrated Pest Management of Litchi.................23
Jaipal Singh Choudhary, Kuldeep Srivastav and Bikash Das
4. Biointensive Integrated Pest Management of Citrus................39
Manish Chandra Mehta, Ingle Dipak Shyamrao and M. Raghuraman
5. Biointensive Integrated Pest Management of Banana..............57
Fouzia Bari and S.K. Senapati
6. Biointensive Integrated Pest Management of Pomegranate ....67
Sandeep Kumar, Priyanka Kumawat and Ponnusamy N.
7. Biointensive Integrated Pest Management of Papaya...............79
Nagendra Kumar, Sandeep Kumar and Priyanka Kumawat
8. Biointensive Integrated Pest Management of Guava................93
Beer Bahadur Singh
9. Biointensive Integrated Pest Management of Mango.............101
Gundappa Baradevanal and Kumarnag K.M.
