Integrated pest management in tropical regions / Edited by Carmelo Rapisarda and Giuseppe E. Massimino Cocuzza.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Rapisarda, Carmelo, editor.

Cocuzza, Giuseppe E. Massimino, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Pests--Integrated control--Tropics.

Pests.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (438 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxfordshire, England ; Boston, Massachusetts : CABI, [2017]

Summary:

This book provides up-to-date, comprehensive coverage of research and applications of IPM in tropical regions. It explores the agro-ecological framework of IPM and emerging technologies in chemical and biological methods central to pest control, and by a crop-based approach details IPM applications in tropical food crops, fibre crops and forests.

Contents:

Front Cover

Title Page

Copyright Page

Contents

Contributors

1 Introduction

Carmelo Rapisarda and Giuseppe E. Massimino Cocuzza

PART I: OVERVIEW OF PEST MANAGEMENT IN THE TROPICS

2 Agroecological Foundations for Pest Management in the Tropics: Learning from Traditional Farmers

Miguel A. Altieri and Clara I. Nicholls

3 Options and Challenges for Pest Control in Intensive Cropping Systems in Tropical Regions

Silvana V. Paula-Moraes, Fábio Maximiano de Andrade Silva and Alexandre Specht

4 Biological Pest Control in the Tropics

Odair Aparecido Fernandes, José Gilberto de Moraes and Vitalis Wafula Wekesa

PART II: INTEGRATED PEST MANAGEMENT APPROACHES FOR TROPICAL CROPS

5 Integrated Pest Management in Tropical Cereal Crops

George Mahuku, Everlyne Wosula and Fred Kanampiu

6 Integrated Pest Management in Tropical Food Legumes

Giuseppe E. Massimino Cocuzza, Salvatore Bella and Tsedeke Abate

7 Integrated Pest Management of Root and Tuber Crops in the Tropics

James Legg, Joshua Okonya and Daniel Coyne

8 Integrated Pest Management in Sugarcane Cropping Systems

François-Régis Goebel and Amin Nikpay

9 Integrated Pest Management in Cotton

Shoil M. Greenberg and Megha N. Parajulee

10 Integrated Pest Management in Tropical Vegetable Crops

Luko Hilje, Edison R. Sujii and Urbano Nava-Camberos

11 Integrated Pest Management and Good Agricultural Practice Recommendations in Greenhouse Crops

Abdelhaq Hanafi and Carmelo Rapisarda

12 Integrated Pest Management in Banana and Plantain

Daniel L. Coyne, Thomas Dubois and Mieke S. Daneel

13 Integrated Pest Management in Citrus

Giuseppe E. Massimino Cocuzza and Carmelo Rapisarda

14 Integrated Pest Management in Oil Palm Plantations in Malaysia.

Norman Kamarudin, Siti Ramlah A. Ali, Ramle Moslim, Zulkefli Masijan and Mohd Basri Wahid

15 Integrated Pest Management in Tea, Cocoa and Coffee

Devid Guastella, Giuseppe E. Massimino Cocuzza and Carmelo Rapisarda

16 Integrated Insect Pest Management in Tropical Forestry

Nitin Kulkarni

Index

Back Cover.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781780648026

1780648022

9781780648019

1780648014