ISBN: 978-81-7319-608-9 
Publication Year:   2005
Pages:   310
Binding:   Hard Back

Overexploitation of natural resources and excessive chemicalization of agriculture have led to poor sustainability of farm production. Indiscriminate use of agricultural chemicals has resulted in problems of pest resurgence and development of resistance on the one hand and has posed serious problems of environmental contamination through residues in food chain on the other hand. The importance of achieving food production through the use of ecofriendly sustainable pest management techniques is being realized more and more in the recent past. Eminent scientists from different research institutions have looked into this aspect seriously and have come up with many enlightening suggestions compiled together in this book.

• Importance of biodiversity • Biocontrol agents • Ecofriendly chemical pesticides • Botanicals for integrated pest management (IPM) • Role of biotechnology • Indigenous and traditional methods of pest management • Integration of various methods in IPM.

Progress and Perspectives in Sustainable Integrated Pest Management / Perspectives in Sustainable Insect Pest Management / Sustainable Cotton Pest Management: Role of Cropping Systems, Gossypium Genotypes, Herbivore – Carnivore Diversity and Chemical Control / Sustainable IPM of Cotton Pests: A Scenario in Karnataka / TNAU IPM Module for the Management of Major Insect Pests of Rainfed Cotton / Effectiveness and Economics of IPM Module for Kharif Groundnut, Arachis hypogea L / Indigenous pest control knowledge of tribals in Tamil Nadu / Conservation of Beneficials for Sustainable IPM / Effect of Certain Agronomic Practices on The Biodiversity of Predatory Arthropod Fauna in Rice / Prospects of Biological Control in Transgenic crops / Evaluation of Trichogramma chilonis Ishii Under Field Condition for the Management of Fruit Borer, Helicoverpa armigera (Hubner) on Chilli / Egg Parasitoids of White Rice Leaf Hopper, Cofana spectra (Distant) (Cicadellidae : Hemiptera) / A Critical Appraisal of Cryptolaemus montrouzieri Muls. - A Biocontrol agent Against Maconellicoccus hirsutus (Green) Causing Tukra in Mulberry / Ecologically Dominant, Predatory Ant Species as a Resource for Sustainable Insect Pest Management in Plantations / Biocontrol based IPM Against Major Pests of Jasmine Jasminum spp. / Evaluation of Metarhizium anisopliae (Metsch Sorok) for the Management of Spodoptera litura on Beans Crop / Epizootic Occurrence, Cross Infectivity, Characterization and Safety of Nuclear Polyhedrosis Virus Of Rice Moth, Corcyra cephalonica (Lepidoptera: Pyrallidae) / Potential of Entomopathogenic Nematodes in Insect Pest Control / Biological Control of Weeds in India – An Over View / Botanical Pesticides for Sustainable Crop Protection / Antifeedant and Ovicidal Activity of Some Plant Extracts Against Spodoptera litura (Fab.) / Effect of Isolated Fractions of Hyptis suaveolens and Melochia chorcorifolia Against the Gram Pod Borer Helicoverpa armigera (Hubner) / Management of Mango Blossom and Fruit Insect Pests Management Using Neem and Pungam Products / Field Evaluation of Plant Extracts for the Management of Groundnut Pests / Management of Aphid, Melanaphis sacchari (Zehntner) on Rabi Sorghum through Botanicals / Evaluation of Botanicals and Bioagents Against Major Pod Borers of Greengram, Vigna radiata (L.) Wilczek / Host Plant Resistance in Cotton to Major Insect Pests: Perspectives and Progress / Screening host plant resistance against major pests of tomato and evaluation of integrated management modules against Helicoverpa armigera Hubn / Effect of Antibiosis Components of Eggplant on the Developmental Biology of Whitefly Parasitoids, Encarsia transvena T. and Eretmocerus mundus M. (Aphelinidae: Hymenoptera) / Status of Rice Gall Midge in Kerala / Bio-ecology of Pod-bugs on Pulses / Use and Abuse of Chemical Pesticides: Need for Safer Pesticides for Sustainable Integrated Pest Management / Field Testing of an IPM Package for the Management of Mulberry Leaf Webber, Diaphania pulverulentalis (Hamp.) / Studies on Development of Sustainable Pest Management in Mulberry / Observations on Biological, Botanical and Chemical Control Tactics of Mulberry Pest Management