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Principles of Integrated Pest and Disease Management (B.Sc Agriculture)

Concept of IPM, pest and disease surveillance, economic threshold levels and integrated control tactics.

6 MonthsDuration 5Chapters24Topics
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01Unit 1: Pests, Pest Status and Concept of IPM 5 topics
  1. Categories of pests
  2. Causes of pest outbreaks
  3. History and concept of IPM
  4. Principles and tools of IPM
  5. Advantages and limitations of IPM
02Unit 2: Surveillance, Forecasting and Economic Thresholds 5 topics
  1. Survey and surveillance
  2. Pest and disease forecasting
  3. Economic injury level (EIL)
  4. Economic threshold level (ETL)
  5. Pheromone, light and sticky traps for monitoring
03Unit 3: Cultural, Mechanical, Physical and Legislative Methods 4 topics
  1. Cultural practices: ploughing, sowing time, trap crops, crop rotation
  2. Mechanical and physical methods
  3. Soil solarisation
  4. Plant quarantine and legislative methods (DIP Act, Insecticides Act)
04Unit 4: Biological Control and Host Plant Resistance 5 topics
  1. Predators, parasitoids and pathogens
  2. Trichogramma, Trichoderma, Pseudomonas, NPV and Bt
  3. Mass production and release of bioagents
  4. Host plant resistance: antixenosis, antibiosis and tolerance
  5. Resistant varieties and transgenic crops
05Unit 5: Chemical Control, Pesticide Safety and IPM Programmes 5 topics
  1. Classification of pesticides
  2. Pesticide formulations and dose calculation
  3. Pesticide resistance, resurgence and residues
  4. Safe handling, label colours and first aid
  5. IPM modules for rice, cotton, vegetables

About

You will be able to

  • Explain categories of pests, causes of pest outbreak and the concept and history of IPM
  • Explain survey, surveillance, forecasting, economic injury level and economic threshold level
  • Choose cultural, mechanical, physical, legislative, biological and chemical tactics for a pest or disease
  • Explain host plant resistance, biocontrol agents and biopesticides
  • Calculate insecticide dose and spray solution correctly and explain safe use of pesticides
  • Plan an IPM module for a major crop of UP

Who it is for

  • B.Sc (Hons.) Agriculture students of Semester 5 (ICAR 5th Deans' Committee syllabus)
  • Students of agriculture colleges affiliated to UP state universities and agricultural universities
  • Students preparing for ICAR-JRF (entomology / plant pathology) and agriculture officer exams

What you need

  • Fundamentals of Entomology and Fundamentals of Plant Pathology (earlier semesters)

Questions

Which syllabus does this course follow?

The course follows the ICAR 5th Deans' Committee B.Sc (Hons.) Agriculture syllabus used by UP agricultural universities (CSAUAT Kanpur, ANDUAT Ayodhya, SVPUAT Meerut, BUAT Banda) and agriculture colleges of UP state universities. Where your own university syllabus differs, the centre follows your university syllabus.

Are dose calculations taught?

Yes. Spray solution and product quantity calculations from EC, WP and granule formulations are practised.

Does it cover both insects and diseases?

Yes. The course covers integrated management of insect pests as well as plant diseases, as in the ICAR syllabus.

Do you give tests?

Yes. Unit tests with MCQs and short notes are given.

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