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Advances with Integrated Pest Management as a Component of Sustainable Agriculture: The Case of the Australian Cotton Industry

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Integrated Pest Management: Dissemination and Impact

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Insect pests represent a significant limitation for production of many crops. Traditional reliance on pesticides brings significant economic costs and environmental liabilities of off-target drift, chemical residues and resistance. IPM has long been proposed as an alternative. The adoption of IPM in the Australian cotton industry provides a valuable overview of the key components of IPM and the issues around successful implementation. IPM must be founded on a thorough understanding of the ecology of pest and beneficial species and their interaction with the crop and will provide a range of tactics which must be integrated by the producer to achieve economic and environmental sustainability. The emerging era of insect resistant transgenic cottons offers real prospects to provide a foundation for more sustainable, economically acceptable IPM with the integration of a range of non-chemical tactics and much less reliance on pesticides.

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  2. Department of Entomology, Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana-141004, India

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Fitt, G., Wilson, L., Kelly, D., Mensah, R. (2009). Advances with Integrated Pest Management as a Component of Sustainable Agriculture: The Case of the Australian Cotton Industry. In: Peshin, R., Dhawan, A.K. (eds) Integrated Pest Management: Dissemination and Impact. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-8990-9_17

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