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Integrated farming (IF), integrated production, or integrated farm management is a whole farm management system which aims to deliver more sustainable agriculture without compromising the quality or quantity of agricultural products. Integrated farming combines modern tools and technologies with traditional practices according to a given site ...
Integrated pest management employs a variety of actions including cultural controls such as physical barriers, biological controls such as adding and conserving natural predators and enemies of the pest, and finally chemical controls or pesticides.
Crop scouting is an Integrated pest management strategy that looks at many different aspects of crop production, not just any single pest or problem. [3] Scouts must be actively observing environmental conditions, beneficial insects , pest insects, diseases, weeds , crop growth stage, and the general health of the crop in question to get a ...
Integrated pest management attempts to use all of these methods to keep pest populations below the number which would cause economic loss, and recommends pesticides as a last resort. [ 156 ] Nutrient management includes both the source of nutrient inputs for crop and livestock production, and the method of use of manure produced by livestock.
Crop choice is central to any cropping system. In evaluating whether a given crop will be planted, a farmer must consider its profitability, adaptability to changing conditions, resistance to disease, and requirement for specific technologies during growth or harvesting. [2]
Integrated pest management is the modern method to minimize pesticide use to more sustainable levels. [ 18 ] [ 19 ] There are concerns over the sustainability of industrial agriculture, and the environmental effects of fertilizers and pesticides, which has given rise to the organic movement [ 20 ] and has built a market for sustainable ...
It is based on in-depth understanding of chemical ecology, agrobiodiversity, plant-plant and insect-plant interactions, and involves intercropping a cereal crop with a repellent intercrop such as Desmodium uncinatum (silverleaf) [4] (push), with an attractive trap plant such as Napier grass (pull) planted as a border crop around this intercrop ...
One of the working groups is on Integrated Pest Management and Integrated Production, [35] a concept of agriculture based on the sustainable use of natural resources. [36] [37] This group has established crop specific guidelines for pome fruits, stone fruits, grapes, soft fruits, olives, citrus and field grown vegetables in Europe. [38] [39]