Pests of Vegetables: 2nd Fully Revised and Enlarged Edition

The pest problems in vegetable cultivation are now changing in a dynamic fashion in close association with the change in cropping system and the environment. Considering the ill effects of hard-to-degrade synthetic chemical pesticides, integrated approaches are the only answer to combat such a complex and delicate problem that comprises host plant resistance, cultural, biological management strategies in association with safe pesticidal chemicals. The book is an exhaustive effort to elaborating the host range, distribution, marks of identification, bionomics of the pests, protected cultivation, host plant resistance, biological control, pesticide residue problem and measures to mitigate which has been presented by the experts from different Institutes of repute from all over India. The book is useful for students, professor and teachers of horticulture, plant protection, acarology as well as nematology. This will also serve as guide to progressive farmers, extension workers, plant protection specialists as well as policy makers. It will surely be a treasure of information and must for the shelf of every library.