Crop Pest Surveillance

Crop Pest surveillance is a strict and continuous watch on the buildup of population of Pests and their natural enemies throughout the crop season or over a desired period of time in an Agro-Eco-System (ASEA) so that a prior care can be adopted to manage the pest problems timely.

Pest surveillance is like a:

·       Diagnostic wing in a Hospital.

·       Signal core in Army.

·       Intelligence wing in IB.

·       A central rod in Umbrella.

·       Eyes and Ears of crop protection system.

·       Vigilance in security system.

·       Water in food.

Pest Surveillance helps:

Ø To detect the appearance of initial symptoms or signs of occurrence of a particular Pest or disease in the field.

Ø To note the pattern of buildup of Pests and diseases and their natural enemies throughout the crop season in a particular field.

Ø To detect the occurrence of emerging Pest problems.

Ø To identify the areas of Pest prevalence or Pest Free Areas (PFA).

Ø To conduct Pest Risk Analysis (PRA) of particular indigenous or invasive pests.

Ø  To make suitable and advance planning, preparedness and strategy for the management of Pest problems.

Ø To make decision for adoption of different interventions in the crop field.

Ø To issue pest advisories about the Pest problems to the states and farmers.

Ø To forecast the Pests and diseases.

Ø To issue Pests alerts.