TY - BOOK AU - S. Manisegaran AU - R. P. Soundararajan TI - Pest management in field crops: Principles and practices SN - 978-81-7754-575-3 U1 - Cir./628/M278/2023 PY - 2023/// CY - India PB - Agrobios India KW - Pest Management N1 - Includes websites, references and glossary N2 - Contents: Introduction. -- Plant protection: importance and history. -- Plant quarantine. -- Pest management: principles and concepts. -- Pest surveillance and crop loss assessment. -- Pesticides, pesticides appliances and preparation of spray fluid. -- Compatibility of pesticides. -- Integrated pest management: a shifting paradigm in pest management. -- Pest of cereals: rice and wheat. -- Pests of millets. -- Pests of pulses. -- Pest of oilseeds. -- Pests of cotton. -- Pests of sugarcane. -- pests of tobacco. -- Pests of green manure and forage crops. -- Non insect pests. -- Pests of stored products. -- Locusts and their management. -- Mass production of bio -control agents. -- Potential integrated pest management strategies for crop pests. -- Biotechnology and insect pest management. -- Invasive pest and their management. -- Model questions for discussion ER -