Week 15: Lac culture + Insecticides Application (Numerical for Dose Calculation)
Lac Culture
The art of rearing the lac insect for the production of lac is called lac culture.
Formulae for the Calculation of Insecticide Doses:
- Total quantity of sprayable material (T.Q.S.M) = ( Dose / Concentration ) x 100
- Total quantity of poison (T.Q.P.) = ( Dose / Formulation ) x 100
Course Material
- Week 1: Economic Importance of Insects; Reasons of Insect Success; How Insects Have Become Pest
- Week 2: Foundations, Principals and Methods of Insect Control
- Week 3: Cultural, Physical & Mechanical Control of Insects
- Week 4: Biological, Legislative and Reproductive Control of Insects
- Week 5: Chemical Control; Classification of insecticides (Mode of Entry & Action)
- Week 6: Chemical Control; Classification of insecticides (Chemical Nature & Formulations)
- Week 7: Insect Pests of Cotton (Chewing & Sucking Complex)
- Week 8: Mid-term
- Week 9: Insect Pests of Sugarcane & Rice
- Week 10: Insect pests of Maize, Sorghum, Gram & Vegetables
- Week 11: Insect Pests of Fruits (Citrus & Mango)
- Week 12: Insect Pests of Stored Products & Households
- Week 13: General Agricultural Pests (Desert Locust & Termites)
- Week 14: Cottage Industries (Apiculture & Sericulture)
- Week 15: Lac culture + Insecticides Application (Numerical for Dose Calculation)
- Week 16: Final-term
- Chapters 16
- Department College of Agriculture
- Teacher
Syed Muhammad Ali Zahid
