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What are the benefits of pest control?
Top 5 Benefits of Professional Pest Control
- Benefit #1: Accurate Pest Identification. You cannot control a pest problem without first identifying the pest problem.
- Benefit #2: Discovering the Source.
- Benefit #3: Less Damage.
- Benefit #4: Pest Management.
- Benefit #5: Protect Your Health.
What are three advantages of cultural control?
Cultural controls employ practices that make the environment less attractive to pests and less favorable for their survival, dispersal, growth and reproduction, and that promote the pest’s natural controls.
What is IPM and its importance to agriculture?
Integrated Pest Management (IPM) is an ecosystem approach to crop production and protection that combines different management strategies and practices to grow healthy crops and minimize the use of pesticides. In order to protect their plants, farmers used to spray chemical products (pesticides).
What are advantages and disadvantages of cultural control?
Simplicity and low cost are the primary advantages of cultural control tactics, and disadvantages are few as long as these tactics are compatible with a farmer’s other management objectives (high yields, mechanization, etc.).
What are the disadvantages of cultural pest control?
DISADVANTAGES: Cultural controls require long-term planning for greatest effectiveness and they need careful timing. They are often based on the substitution of knowledge and skills for purchased inputs and, as such, are more demanding on the farmer’s competence.
What is IPM and how is it used in pest control?
Integrated Pest Management (IPM) is an effective and environmentally sensitive approach to pest management that relies on a combination of common-sense practices. IPM programs use current, comprehensive information on the life cycles of pests and their interaction with the environment.
What are the disadvantages of biological pest control?
The most important disadvantage of this method is the risk related with the income stability. According to Reichelderfer (1981), BCAs are more susceptible to environmental conditions than chemical control. This consequently causes fluctuations to pest populations.
What is cultural control in IPM?
Cultural control is a method of crop protection using careful timing and a combination of agronomic practices to make the environment less favorable for the increase of certain pests or diseases. A principle of IPM is to “grow a healthy crop”.