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What are the components of integrated pest management?


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Integrated pest management:

  1. It involves various processes like crop rotation, early or late planting, mulching, use of trap crops, proper spacing, weeding, etc.
  2. Crops can be protected by the elimination of pests by starvation.
  3. It also makes use of mechanical methods like catching and killing insects and rodents.
  4. Burning around the fields is also employed to kill insects and rodents.
  5. Disease-resistant varieties of plants are used to reduce the attack of different pests.
  6. Different parasites and predators are also used to control pest species.

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