Integrated Pest Management (IPM) is to grow crop with minimum use of chemical pesticides

1.      Agriculture itself is an integrated technology involving various packages of practices being used in integrated manner.   

2.      Integrated Pest Management is also a kind of package of Practices involved to suppress the  pest population below ETL.

3.      Farmers themselves are doing IPM  keeping using chemical pesticides as priority IPM input which need to be replaced with last priority input.

4.      IPM is a way of managing pests below ETL with minimum use of chemical pesticides using various practices in Integrated manner. IPM practices don’t operate in isolation as they are coexistent with each other for crop  production and protection programme.

5.      There is a need to promote non chemical methods of Pest Management to reduce the use of chemical pesticides. However, safe and judicious use of chemical pesticides can be used as last resort as per the recommendation of CIB&RC based on five basic principles: five basic principles i.e. right pesticide, on right crop, at right time, against right pests,  with right dose with right method.  The instructions given on label and leaflets of pesticides containers may be strictly followed.

6.Discourasing the poisonous farming. 

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