Author: Rick Blanchette Publisher: Chicago Review Press ISBN: Category : Gardening Languages : en Pages : 314
Book Description
Giving growers the answers needed for fighting insects and disease in their production areas, this collection of over 100 articles from GrowerTalks magazine offers strategies to fight pests, including IPM, biologicals, and spraying techniques.
Author: Rick Blanchette Publisher: Chicago Review Press ISBN: Category : Gardening Languages : en Pages : 242
Book Description
This collection of more than 60 articles from "GrowerTalks" magazine is written for professional growers by the industry's leading floriculture experts, academic researchers, and professional growers. Articles highlight proven methods and tips on crop control, growth regulation of perennial crops, pest control, and marketing perennial crops. The controversial issue of forcing perennial flowers out of season so customers can buy colorful plants in the spring is discussed, as is specific research into planning for spring flowers. Research into regulating the height growth of perennial crops is also presented, including findings on which plant growth regulators are effective and at what rates.
Author: Rick Blanchette Publisher: Ball Publishing ISBN: Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 220
Book Description
Successful growers share their experience with a wide range of crops - from aglaonema to trachelium. Learn proven cultivation practices, tips, and shortcuts to make your crops healthier, better looking, and more profitable.--COVER.
Author: Rick Blanchette Publisher: Ball Publishing ISBN: Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 284
Book Description
The latest developments in greenhouse design and equipment are included in this compilation of articles from GrowerTalks magazine. Topics covered include structures, technology, transplanters, environmental controls, energy efficiency, irrigation, and maintenance and damage.
Author: P. Parvatha Reddy Publisher: Springer ISBN: 9812879528 Category : Technology & Engineering Languages : en Pages : 451
Book Description
This book focuses on pests (insect and mite) and diseases (fungal, bacterial, viral and nematode) in protected horticulture (fruits, vegetables and ornamentals) using physical, cultural, chemical, biological, host resistance, and integrated methods. It opens with chapters describing the setting in which integrated pest and disease control operates, i.e., the greenhouse and its environment. Subsequent chapters present the basic strategies and tactics of different control methods including integrated control, with special reference to greenhouse crops. Further chapters include the different facets of biological pest and disease control – its scientific bases, its development in practice, its commercialization and quality control. The concluding chapters of the book highlight the present status of integrated pest and disease control for the most important greenhouse crops (fruits, vegetables and flower crops) worldwide. The book’s final chapter explores future challenges for researchers assigned to identify non-pesticide methods and integrate sustainable pest management technologies that can contribute to increased productivity, such as breeding for durable resistance, biological control and devising integrated methods that will have minimal adverse environmental and social impacts. Among productivity-enhancing technologies, protected cultivation has a tremendous potential to increase the yield of vegetables and flower cro ps by several fold. Pests and diseases are one of the major challenges to protected cultivation. Year-round warm temperatures and relatively high humidity together with abundant food make the protected environment of greenhouses highly attractive to pests and diseases. Nevertheless, very little attention has been paid to the manipulation of greenhouse environments expressly to avoid disease epidemics and insect infestations, which together can easily account for 30% of crop losses. This book will be of immense value to all members of the scientific community involved in teaching, research and extension activities on protected horticulture. It also offers a useful reference guide for policymakers and practicing farmers, and can be used as a textbook for postgraduate courses.
Author: Suprakash Pal Publisher: CRC Press ISBN: 1000008223 Category : Gardening Languages : en Pages : 308
Book Description
Floricultural crops all over the world are challenged by a number of insect and mite pests. The pest scenario is changing, and with climate change the instances of new pest incidences have become a more common problem. Like other crops, the intensive cultivation of commercial flowers has accentuated pest problems, as farmers tend to use more agricultural chemicals, which, in turn, increase the problems of pesticide resistance, pest resurgence, and residues leading to health hazards. This volume, Advances in Pest Management in Commercial Flowers, looks at the major challenges and improvements in this growing area today. It first provides an informative overview of worldwide pests of important commercial flowers. It explores a number of important issues in this area, such as the role of climate change on insect pests of commercial flowers and the synthetic chemicals and their possible harmful effects on the environment.
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