Advances in Pest Management in Commercial Flowers (Innovations in Horticultural Science)

304 Pages·2020·10.9 MB·English

by  Suprakash Pal (editor), Akshay Kumar Chakravarthy (editor)

ADVANCES IN PEST MANAGEMENT
IN COMMERCIAL FLOWERS

Innovations in Horticultural Science
ADVANCES IN PEST MANAGEMENT
IN COMMERCIAL FLOWERS
Edited by
Suprakash Pal, PhD
Akshay Kumar Chakravarthy, PhD
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Title: Advances in pest management in commercial flowers / edited by Suprakash Pal, PhD,
Akshay Kumar Chakravarthy, PhD.
Names: Pal, Suprakash, editor. | Chakravarthy, A. K. (Akshay Kumar), 1955- editor.
Series: Innovations in horticultural science.
Description: Series statement: Innovations in horticultural science | Includes bibliographical
references and index.
Identifiers: Canadiana (print) 20190222786 | Canadiana (ebook) 20190222840 |
ISBN 9781771888172 (hardcover) | ISBN 9780429284120 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Flowers—Diseases and pests—Control. | LCSH: Floriculture
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INNOVATIONS IN
HORTICULTURAL SCIENCE
Editor-in-Chief:
Dr. Mohammed Wasim Siddiqui Assistant Professor-cum- Scientist
Bihar Agricultural University | www.bausabour.ac.in
Department of Food Science and Post-Harvest Technology
Sabour | Bhagalpur | Bihar | P. O. Box 813210 | INDIA
Contacts: (91) 9835502897
Email: [email protected] | [email protected]
The horticulture sector is considered as the most dynamic and sustainable segment
of agriculture all over the world. It covers pre- and postharvest management of a
wide spectrum of crops, including fruits and nuts, vegetables (including potatoes),
flowering and aromatic plants, tuber crops, mushrooms, spices, plantation crops,
edible bamboos etc. Shifting food pattern in wake of increasing income and health
awareness of the populace has transformed horticulture into a vibrant commercial
venture for the farming community all over the world.
It is a well-established fact that horticulture is one of the best options for
improving the productivity of land, ensuring nutritional security for mankind and
for sustaining the livelihood of the farming community worldwide. The world’s
populace is projected to be 9 billion by the year 2030, and the largest increase
will be confined to the developing countries, where chronic food shortages
and malnutrition already persist. This projected increase of population will
certainly reduce the per capita availability of natural resources and may hinder
the equilibrium and sustainability of agricultural systems due to overexploitation
of natural resources, which will ultimately lead to more poverty, starvation,
malnutrition, and higher food prices. The judicious utilization of natural resources
is thus needed and must be addressed immediately.
Climate change is emerging as a major threat to the agriculture throughout the world
as well. Surface temperatures of the earth have risen significantly over the past
century, and the impact is most significant on agriculture. The rise in temperature
enhances the rate of respiration, reduces cropping periods, advances ripening, and
hastens crop maturity, which adversely affects crop productivity. Several climatic
extremes such as droughts, floods, tropical cyclones, heavy precipitation events,
hot extremes, and heat waves cause a negative impact on agriculture and are mainly
caused and triggered by climate change.
vi Innovations in Horticultural Science
In order to optimize the use of resources, hi-tech interventions like precision farming,
which comprises temporal and spatial management of resources in horticulture, is
essentially required. Infusion of technology for an efficient utilization of resources
is intended for deriving higher crop productivity per unit of inputs. This would be
possible only through deployment of modern hi-tech applications and precision
farming methods. For improvement in crop production and returns to farmers,
these technologies have to be widely spread and adopted. Considering the above-
mentioned challenges of horticulturist and their expected role in ensuring food and
nutritional security to mankind, a compilation of hi-tech cultivation techniques and
postharvest management of horticultural crops is needed.
This book series, Innovations in Horticultural Science, is designed to address the
need for advance knowledge for horticulture researchers and students. Moreover,
the major advancements and developments in this subject area to be covered in
this series would be beneficial to mankind.
Topics of interest include:
1. Importance of horticultural crops for livelihood
2. Dynamics in sustainable horticulture production
3. Precision horticulture for sustainability
4. Protected horticulture for sustainability
5. Classification of fruit, vegetables, flowers, and other horticultural crops
6. Nursery and orchard management
7. Propagation of horticultural crops
8. Rootstocks in fruit and vegetable production
9. Growth and development of horticultural crops
10. Horticultural plant physiology
11. Role of plant growth regulator in horticultural production
12. Nutrient and irrigation management
13. Fertigation in fruit and vegetables crops
14. High-density planting of fruit crops
15. Training and pruning of plants
16. Pollination management in horticultural crops
17. Organic crop production
18. Pest management dynamics for sustainable horticulture
19. Physiological disorders and their management
20. Biotic and abiotic stress management of fruit crops
21. Postharvest management of horticultural crops
22. Marketing strategies for horticultural crops
23. Climate change and sustainable horticulture
24. Molecular markers in horticultural science
25. Conventional and modern breeding approaches for quality improvement
26. Mushroom, bamboo, spices, medicinal, and plantation crop production
BOOKS IN THE SERIES
• Spices: Agrotechniques for Quality Produce
Amit Baran Sharangi, PhD, S. Datta, PhD, and Prahlad Deb, PhD
• Sustainable Horticulture, Volume 1: Diversity, Production, and
Crop Improvement
Editors: Debashis Mandal, PhD, Amritesh C. Shukla, PhD, and
Mohammed Wasim Siddiqui, PhD
• Sustainable Horticulture, Volume 2: Food, Health, and Nutrition
Editors: Debashis Mandal, PhD, Amritesh C. Shukla, PhD, and
Mohammed Wasim Siddiqui, PhD
• Underexploited Spice Crops: Present Status, Agrotechnology, and
Future Research Directions
Amit Baran Sharangi, PhD, Pemba H. Bhutia,
Akkabathula Chandini Raj, and Majjiga Sreenivas
• The Vegetable Pathosystem: Ecology, Disease Mechanism, and
Management
Editors: Mohammad Ansar, PhD, and Abhijeet Ghatak, PhD
• Advances in Pest Management in Commercial Flowers
Editors: Suprakash Pal, PhD, and Akshay Kumar Chakravarthy, PhD
• Diseases of Fruits and Vegetable Crops: Recent Management
Approaches
Editors: Gireesh Chand, PhD, Md. Nadeem Akhtar, and Santosh Kumar
• Management of Insect Pests in Vegetable Crops: Concepts and
Approaches
Editors: Ramanuj Vishwakarma, PhD, and Ranjeet Kumar, PhD

ABOUT THE EDITORS
Suprakash Pal, PhD
Associate Professor of Agricultural Entomology,
Uttar Banga Krishi Viswavidyalaya (UBKV)
(North Bengal Agriculture University), Pundibari,
Cooch Behar, West Bengal, India
Suprakash Pal, PhD, is currently an Associate
Professor in Agricultural Entomology at Uttar Banga
Krishi Viswavidyalaya (UBKV) (North Bengal Agri-
culture University), Pundibari, Cooch Behar, West
Bengal, India. He has been carrying out teaching, research, and extension
activities for more than 16 years. His areas of interest include studying
arthropod diversity in agroecosystems with special reference to floricultural
and medicinal plants as well as conservation biological control. He teaches
undergraduate as well as postgraduate students and has guided five MSc
students and is currently supervising one PhD student in his role as chairman
of the advisory committee. He has published 38 research papers in peer-
reviewed journals and three book chapters for reputed publication houses.
He has been associated with several externally funded research projects and
is presently pursuing a major project as Principal Investigator, funded by the
Ministry of Ayurveda, Yoga and Naturopathy, Unani, Siddha and Homoe-
opathy (AYUSH), Government of India, on a survey of pests and diseases
of medicinal plants in West Bengal. He has performed the administrative
responsibility of In-Charge on the All India Network Project on Jute and
Allied Fibers, Indian Council of Agricultural Research at UBKV, and has
presented research papers at 12 seminars and symposia, including two inter-
national events. He has served as a reviewer for several reputed national
and international journals and has acted as an external examiner for several
universities, such as Visva-Bharati University, Santiniketan, India; Bidhan
Chandra Agricultural University, Kalyani, India; Orissa University of Agri-
culture and Technology, Bhubaneswar, India, etc. He is a life member of
five national and international professional societies, including the Entomo-
logical Society of India (ESI), New Delhi, India.