Agriculture
Insecticide Synergists: Good or Bad for Honey Bees?
Abstract An increasing global population (estimated at over 9 billion by the year 2050) brings the problem of maintaining a sustainable agricultural system, with the constraints on land-use and environmental protection that such a process incurs. One acute problem is that of arthropod pests, chemical control of which remains the foundation of pest control for […]
History of Pest Management in Texas and the Southern United States and How Recent Grower Adoption of Preventative Pest Management Technologies Have Diminished the Capability for IPM Delivery
Abstract The history of pest management since the late 1880s is a repeated cycle of pest intensification, development of innovative and effective technology, enthusiastic use/over use of the technology, followed in the short term by a return to pest intensification and sustainability issues due to grower failure to integrate control tactics. The overland invasion of […]
Evolution of Agricultural Aviation in Brazil
Brazil has experienced an enormous investment and expansion in agriculture over the last 5 years with the opening up of large farms in various regions of the country. As an example, according to DERAL (2013), the total production of soybeans in Brazil increased by 27.5% from 2009 to 2013, while the average growth in total […]
GHANA IPM PROGRAMME: PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE
Recent developments have shown that Integrated Pest Management (IPM) could be more practical and field oriented to the benefits of the ordinary farmer. The authors have personally come to accept the fact that promoting IPM is also about empowering users to engage in competitive and sustainable agricultural and horticultural production with long-term positive impacts on […]
Reducing drift with innovative electrostatic spraying system
Since 1981, when Martignani became the first European company to introduce electrostatic spraying equipment, the company’s innovations have won various awards in a number of international competitions such as EIMA Bologna, SIMA Paris, etc. At the ninth edition of Enovitis in campo, held in Treviso, Italy in June this year (an event dedicated to the […]
Natural crop trait enhancement with microbial teams
In a world that is facing rapid population growth, global climate volatility, and increasing environmental damage, revolutionary crop protection methods and production models are an urgent necessity. In recent years, microbial solutions have garnered much interest and research for this purpose. Several microbial products have proven effective for protecting crops and increasing yields, thereby adding […]
Biorational solutions to fruit fly species of economic importance
The Mediterranean fruit fly Ceratitis capitata is ranked as the most economically important fruit fly worldwide. In Mediterranean countries alone, the economic impact is estimated at US$192m. In Tunisia its presence causes up to 50% yield losses of peaches, with quality losses estimated at US$0.52m in 2009. The second species of highest significance is the […]
Biologicals: A stronger case for permanent status in the IPM program
The rotation of different active ingredients with different modes of action is a paramount tactic to prevent insecticide resistance (Civolani et al. 2014). Integrated pest management (IPM) programs emphasize the use of multiple tactics (chemical, biological, mechanical, etc.) to control pest populations. While combining these tactics can provide sustainable and efficacious pest suppression, many insecticides […]
