About the Book: Integrated Pest Management Concepts and Approaches
The book deals with the present state and problems of Integrated Pest
Management (IPM) as relating to stakeholder acceptance of IPM and how IPM can
become a sustainable practice. The book covers the implementation of integrated
pest management and its impact in reducing pesticide use in agriculture. The
book also deals with the impact of transgenic crops on pesticide use.
Integration of different tactics of pest management was well known much before
the concept of IPM came into being. However, IPM gained momentum only when the
adverse effects of large scale use of pesticides became evident. Since