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Categories of insect pests and diseases
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Integrated Pest Management – What? How?
c) How is IPM Implemented?
d) Concepts and philosophy
e) Principles and tools of IPM
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Economic importance of Insect Pests
a) Diseases and Pest Risk Analysis
b) Cost-benefit ratios and partial budgeting
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Methods of Detection and Diagnosis of Insect Pest and Diseases
a) Calculation and dynamics of economic injury level and importance of Economic threshold level
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Methods of Pest Management
e) Sanitary Control Practices
g) Biological and chemical control
h) Economic Principles of Pest Management
i) Ecological management of crop environment
d) The Place of Pesticides in IPM
e) Thresholds and Pest Scouting
h) Causes of Failure of Pesticide Applications
i) Causes of Pesticide Resistance in Pests
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Biotechnological strategies in IPM
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Pesticides and Formulations
b) Pesticide Classification
c) Pesticide Formulations
a) Objectives of Pesticide Application
b) Plant Coverage, Droplet Size, and Volume of Water
c) Effectiveness of Spray Applications
d) Nozzles and Sprayer Calibration
e) Sprayer Calibration and Maintenance
f) Comparisons of Sprayer Types
a) Risk, Hazard, Toxicity, and Exposure
b) How Pesticides Enter the Body
c) Common Ways of Pesticide Exposure
d) Harmful Effects of Pesticides
e) General Symptoms and Signs of Acute Pesticide Poisoning
g) Personal Protective Clothing
a) What is the Environment
b) Pesticide Sources of Environmental Contamination
c) Pesticide Movement in the Environment
e) Residues on Food Crops and Pre-Harvest Intervals
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Introduction to conventional pesticides for the insect pests and disease management.
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Survey surveillance and forecasting of Insect pest and diseases
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Development and validation of IPM module
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Implementation and impact of IPM (IPM module for Insect pestand disease. Safety issues in pesticide uses
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Political, social and legal implication of IPM.
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Case Histories of important IPM programmes
