Pest Management

How To Control Pest?

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Pest Management requires a combination of long and short term production strategies to maximize net profit while minimizing risks of undesirable environmental impacts of practices.

Some of these practices include site selection, crop specific production strategies, nutrient management, and cover cropping. Pest management is a pest control strategy that promotes the use of a variety of tactics including pest resistant cultivars and biological, cultural, mechanical, chemical and physical controls.

Pesticides are a control tactic employed in IPM, but they are only used when needed. Pesticide use is thus minimized without jeopardizing crop quality or yield. Applying multiple control tactics minimizes the chance that pests will adapt to any one tactic and allows farmers to choose the most environmentally sound, efficacious, and economically efficient pest management program for their situation.