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Wiley India Pvt Ltd Integrated Pest Management In The Tropics Current Status And Future Prospects by Mengech Annalee N. Et Al
About the Book: Integrated Pest Management in the Tropics: Current Status and Future ProspectsThis volume assesses the current status and future prospects for IPM in these regions, it provide a unique overview of the efforts made to develop and implement IPM for the pests of livestock and agroforestry in selected countries in the tropics (including India and China), as well as a survey of IPM strategies on a crop-by-crop basis for each continent. The book gives an honest appraisal of both the successes and failures of past IPM programmes and provides new paradigms and directions that IPM must develop, if it is to be adopted by farmers and governments on a scale necessary to change their current reliance on chemical pestioldes.ContentsPractice of Integrated Pest Management in Tropical and Sub-Tropical Africa: An Overview of Two Decades (1970-1990)Practice of IPM in South and Southeast AsiaReview of IPM in South AmericaExecutive Summary and Recommendations