Sabado, Marso 15, 2014

My report in cropsci last semester....

Bagging:  covering the fruit with plastic or bag to avoid direct contact of insect

 Trapping: Insect traps are used to monitor or directly reduce insect populations. They typically use food, visual lures, chemical attractants and pheromones as bait and are installed so that they do not injure other animals or humans or result in residues in foods or feeds. Visual lures use light, bright colors and shapes to attract pests.

Handpicking: Is an excellent method of controlling pests especially when only a few plants are infested. It is the easiest and direct way to kill the visible and slowly moving pests. By handpicking the adults before they have the chance to lay their eggs and by crashing the eggs before they hatch prevent the pests' build-up and the resulting damage.
Insect light trap: Is one of the very effective tools of insect pest management in organic agriculture as it mass-traps both the sexes of insect pests and also substantially reduces the carryover pest population.
Mulching: Is one of the simplest and most beneficial practices you can use in the garden. Mulch is simply a protective layer of a material that is spread on top of the soil. Mulches can either be organic -- such as grass clippings, straw, bark chips, and similar materials -- or inorganic -- such as stones, brick chips, and plastic. Both organic and inorganic mulches have numerous benefits.
Pruning is a horticultural and silvicultural practice involving the selective removal of parts of a plant, such as branches, buds, or roots. Reasons to prune plants include deadwood removal, shaping (by controlling or directing growth), improving or maintaining health, reducing risk from falling branches, preparing nursery specimens for transplanting, and both harvesting and increasing the yield or quality of flowers and fruits.
Baiting for pathogens
Baiting involves taking a sample of soil and placing a potential pathogen food source within it (e.g. a carrot).  The food source is then removed, and pathogen isolation attempted from it

Sticky board traps


Flying insects are attracted to bright yellow, blue, and white colors. Traps, consisting of square pieces of cardboard or hard plastic coated with sticky substances placed throughout the growing area among the plants, attract them. Strips of yellow or blue sticky plastic can also be used around or inside the growing ranges.

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