Wildlife and Ecology
Course Title: Credit Hours 3(c2-2) Department of Wildlife and Ecology Integrated Pest Management: Integrated Pest Management (IPM) is an ecosystem approach to crop production and protection that combines different management strategies and practices to grow healthy crops and minimize the use of pesticides. Or IPM is an approach-based method for analysis of the agro-ecosystem and the management of its different elements to control pest and keep them at an acceptable level (action threshold) with respect to the economic, health and environmental requirements. Several kinds of pests can infest the different parts of plants/crops, and damage them partially or sometimes completely, seriously affecting the quantity and quality of the yield. Moreover, certain crop production intensification practices (e.g. early season spr...