Explore: Pest Control In Horticultural Crops

with unsanitary conditions. Agricultural and horticultural crops are attacked by a wide variety of pests, the most important being rodents, insects, mites

soap sprays, and other pest-control methods available to organic farmers are also utilized by organic horticulturists. Horticulture involves five areas of

tilling, spraying or Integrated Pest Management (IPM). Care is required to reduce damages and losses to horticultural crops during harvest. Compression forces

interactions between each pest and control agent. An example of inoculative release occurs in the horticultural production of several crops in greenhouses. Periodic

pest management (IPM), also known as integrated pest control (IPC) integrates both chemical and non-chemical practices for economic control of pests.

particular crop; estimate the growth-stages of crops, weeds or even life stages of insects; predict maturity and cutting dates of forage crops; predict

crops on one set of nutrients, pest and weed pressure, along with the probability of developing resistant pests and weeds. Growing the same crop in the

food crops from damage, as eggs of the pests are preferentially laid on the nasturtium. However, while many trap crops divert pests from focal crops in small

groundsel. Pests such as cutworms may first attack weeds but then move on to cultivated crops. Some plants are considered weeds by some farmers and crops by others

reserved for legume crops harvested solely for the dry seed. This excludes green beans and green peas, which are considered vegetable crops. Also excluded