Food, Crop Pests, and the Environment

Food, Crop Pests, and the Environment

This book presents the combined analyses of industry representatives, growers, environmentalists, scientists, and agency personnel on the potential of IPM. Strong emphasis is given to nonpesticide tactics, including biocontrols, host resistance, and cultural procedures.

Table of Contents

Foreward; Integrated Pest Management: Addressing the Economic and Environmental Issues of Contemporary Agriculture; Integrated Pest Management in the Corn/Soybean Agroecosystem; Biologically Intensive Integrated Pest Management: Future Choices for Cotton; Biologically Intensive Pest Management in the Tree Fruit System; Biologically Intensive IPM for Vegetable Crops; Constraints to the Implementation and Adoption of IPM; Appendix 1; Literature Cited