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  2. Pest control - Wikipedia

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    An agricultural aircraft applies low-insecticide bait against western corn rootworm.. Pest control is the regulation or management of a species defined as a pest; such as any animal, plant or fungus that impacts adversely on human activities or environment. [1]

  3. International Association for the Plant Protection Sciences

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    The IAPPS was founded in 1946 during the first International Plant Congress in Louvain, Belgium. The first president of the organisation was Olaf Freyberg of Malmö, Sweden, who made the following comment: The world needs a plant protection organization, and not only to plan future congresses, but much more provide a platform for the discussion of current research results amongst scientists.

  4. Push–pull agricultural pest management - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  5. Pesticide - Wikipedia

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    Most pesticides are used as plant protection products (also known as crop protection products), which in general protect plants from weeds, fungi, or insects. In general, a pesticide is a chemical or biological agent (such as a virus, bacterium, or fungus) that deters, incapacitates, kills, or otherwise discourages pests.

  6. International Plant Protection Convention - Wikipedia

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    The International Plant Protection Convention (IPPC) is a 1951 multilateral treaty overseen by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization that aims to secure coordinated, effective action to prevent and to control the introduction and spread of pests of plants and plant products. The Convention extends beyond the protection of ...

  7. Plant Protection and Quarantine - Wikipedia

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    The North American Plant Protection Organization (NAPPO), operating between the U.S., Canada and Mexico, was created in 1976 to set Regional Standards for Phytosanitary Measures (RSPM). It depends upon regulators, scientists, producers and industry associations to collaborate in scientific standards to protect agricultural, forest, and other ...

  8. Biological pest control - Wikipedia

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    In addition, biological pest control sometimes makes use of plant defenses to reduce crop damage by herbivores. Techniques include polyculture, the planting together of two or more species such as a primary crop and a secondary plant, which may also be a crop. This can allow the secondary plant's defensive chemicals to protect the crop planted ...

  9. CropLife International - Wikipedia

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    CropLife International is an international trade association of agrochemical companies founded in 2001. It was previously known as Global Crop Protection Federation [2] and started out as International Group of National Associations of Manufacturers of Agrochemical Products [3] in 1967.

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