Integrated Pest Management

What does IPM stand for?

• Integrated Pesticide manager
• Integrated Pest Management
• Integrated Bugs Life
• Integrated Pest Prevention

Biological control

• The use of special equipment to remove pests or destroy them; fly swatter

• Controlling pests by using other organisms through predation or parasitism

• A change that disrupts the normal relationship between a pest and host; tilling soil

• The use of pesticides to suppress the pest population

The practice of planting a nitrogen-using plant with a nitrogen-fixing plant is called

• intercropping

• contour farming

• agroforestry

• monoculture

the growing of single crop

• Lay-outing

• Monocropping

• Irrigation

• Intercropping

the planting of other crop within the row of the main crop

• Lay-outing

• Monocropping

• Irrigation

• Intercropping

What is the advantages of crop rotation?

• Helps maintain the supply of organic matter and nitrogen in the soil

• Less water will be wasted

• Enhanced soil fertility and microbial activities

• All of the above

What is the disadvantage of crop rotation?

• Specialization on a single crop is not possible.

• Efficient land use.

• Avoid accumulation of toxic substances.

• Crop rotation adds diversity to the farm.

Crop yield is often higher when the land is in a rotation regimen than when in monoculture (same crop planted year after year).

• True

• False

Integrated pest management (IPM)

• is less complicated and easier to apply than conventional pest management methods

• is strictly a program of biological controls

• emphasizes the use of chemical agents such as pesticides

• requires expert knowledge of insect life cycles and individual pest-crop situations

Crop rotation is effective because:

• The soil is better in other places.

• Flying insects have trouble finding the target crop.

• Non-mobile insects cannot reach the target crop.

• hand-picking insects is time consuming.