Pest and Disease Management for Organic Farmers, Growers and Smallholders
Pest and Disease Management for Organic Farmers, Growers and Smallholders
Author(s): Gareth Davies, Phil SumptionPest and Disease Management for Organic Farmers, Growers and Smallholders is a comprehensive book covering all aspects of the subject in temperate areas. Incorporating the most up-do-date thinking on organic pest and disease management, it is an essential reference work for all those wishing to develop a good understanding of the subject.
The authors provide a practical guide to organic pest and disease management practices. They advocate a whole-farm approach to pest and disease management, which uses rotations and the full farm landscape to manage pest and disease outbreaks.
The book covers:
- The scientific principles underlying pest and disease management in organic systems
- Long-term preventative methods, based on sensitive landscape management, and shorter-term reactive measures
- The cost implications of different approaches
- The monitoring and decision-making processes that farmers and growers should use
- The key pests and diseases of field vegetables, cereals and green manures, and their management in organic systems
Availability: In Print
Publication date: October 2010
Binding: Paperback
Dimensions: 234 x 156mm
Weight: 839g
Extent: 416pp
ISBN: 9781847971500
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Conventions Used in This Book
Preface
Acknowledgements
1. Principles for Organic Pest and Disease Management
2. The Ecology of Pest and Disease Management
3. Preventative pest and Disease Management
4. Adaptive Pest and Disease Management
5. Direct Pest and Disease Control
6. The Monitoring and Economics of Pest and Disease Management (with Ulrich Shmutz)
7. Pest Insect Management Strategies in Crops and Systems
8. Other Pest Management Strategies in Crops
9. Disease Management Strategies in Crops and Systems
10. Diagnosing and Solving Pest and Disease Management Problems
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