- Integrated Pest Management (IPM)/Integrated Pest Control (IPC)
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- Definition: a broad-based approach that integrates practices for economic control of pests.
- The basic of IPM
- Pests need food, water and shelters. To get rid of pest you have to:
- Don’t provide food to pest
- Clean up your field
- Often take out weeds
- Don’t provide water to pest
- Set up the irrigation system properly
- Avoid leaking
- Don’t provide shelter to pest
- All kind of debris is a very good place for pest to live, so get rid of debris
- Don’t provide food to pest
- Pests need food, water and shelters. To get rid of pest you have to:
- IPM strategy
- Using trap crop help to reduce 20-25% of past that can go into your crops.
- Grow trap crop 20 days before plant the main crop.
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- Soil preparation: farmer make sure the soil that they choose didn’t have a lot of paste
- Planting: Farmer plant the crop that strong can decrease the paste and disease, also can grow in any season
- Forecasting: Note down the data of your prediction, when will have a lot, then prevent and save the spray
- Pest trapping: Farmer use pest trapping to know that the pest had come or not yet , and decide how to control
- Monitoring: Farmer checks to know that the paste come to damage level.
- Thresholds: Before the farmers kill the pest, they wait unit the pest’s population can cause economic damage, that can make the crops produce less yield.
- Cultural control: Then the pest’s environment disrupt by old planting waste killing bacteria greenhouse, harvest early
- Biological control: They import biological where it is effective
- Chemical control: Farmer chose the effective and appropriate pesticide to pray
- Record Keeping: Record of pest trap
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