Week 14: Bio intensive pest management
Biointensive IPM incorporates ecological and economic factors into agricultural system design and decision making, and addresses public concerns about environmental
quality and food safety. The benefits of implementing biointensive IPM can include reduced chemical input costs, reduced on-farm and off-farm environmental impacts,
and more effective and sustainable pest management.
Course Material
- Week 1-5: Introduction, distribution, identification of soil micro-organisms
- Week 6: Symptoms of soil-borne plant diseases
- Week 7: Soil-borne Plant Pathogenic fungi
- Week 8-9: Mid-term - Vegetable diseases
- Week 10: Graft-transmissible Diseases
- Week 11: Bio-control of soil borne plant pathogens
- Week 12: Soil management for disease prevention
- Week 13: Protecting plantation from diseases
- Week 14: Bio intensive pest management
- Week 15: Fumigation for soil pest control
- Course outline
- Chapters 11
- Department Plant Pathology
- Teacher
Yasir Iftikhar
