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Agro-ecological Approaches to Pest Management for Sustainable Agriculture

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The cover/green manure crops can be considered as the backbone for any annual cropping system to be sustainable. They are responsible for sustainable farming because of enhancement of organic matter, improvement of soil structure, nitrogen fixation, nutrient enhancement, rooting action, soil and water conservation, soil microbial activity, and pest management. This chapter summarizes different management aspects of insect and mite pests (pollen and nectar source for predators, overwintering habitats for generalist predators, and understory cover crops in orchards), disease pathogens, nematode pests, and weed suppression using cover/green manure crops. The mechanisms involved in insect pest, disease, and weed suppression are also discussed.

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Reddy, P.P. (2017). Cover/Green Manure Cropping. In: Agro-ecological Approaches to Pest Management for Sustainable Agriculture. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-4325-3_7

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