Integrated pest management in tropical regions

361 Pages·2018·6.91 MB·English

by  Cocuzza

Integrated Pest Management in Tropical Regions
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Integrated Pest Management in
Tropical Regions
Edited by
Carmelo Rapisarda
and
Giuseppe E. Massimino Cocuzza
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Names: Rapisarda, Carmelo, editor. | Cocuzza, Giuseppe E. Massimino, editor.
Title: Integrated pest management in tropical regions /
edited by: Carmelo Rapisarda and Giuseppe E. Massimino Cocuzza.
Description: Boston, MA : CABI, [2018] | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2017023566 (print) | LCCN 2017024622 (ebook) | ISBN 9781780648019 (ePDF) |
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Subjects: LCSH: Pests--Integrated control--Tropics.
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Contents
Contributors vii
1 Introduction 1
Carmelo Rapisarda and Giuseppe E. Massimino Cocuzza
PART I: OVERVIEW OF PEST MANAGEMENT IN THE TROPICS
2 Agroecological Foundations for Pest Management in the Tropics: Learning
from Traditional Farmers 6
Miguel A. Altieri and Clara I. Nicholls
3 Options and Challenges for Pest Control in Intensive Cropping Systems in
Tropical Regions 18
Silvana V. Paula-Moraes, Fábio Maximiano de Andrade Silva and
Alexandre Specht
4 Biological Pest Control in the Tropics 33
Odair Aparecido Fernandes, José Gilberto de Moraes and Vitalis Wafula Wekesa
PART II: INTEGRATED PEST MANAGEMENT APPROACHES FOR TROPICAL CROPS
5 Integrated Pest Management in Tropical Cereal Crops 47
George Mahuku, Everlyne Wosula and Fred Kanampiu
6 Integrated Pest Management in Tropical Food Legumes 74
Giuseppe E. Massimino Cocuzza, Salvatore Bella and Tsedeke Abate
7 Integrated Pest Management of Root and Tuber Crops in the Tropics 90
James Legg, Joshua Okonya and Daniel Coyne
8 Integrated Pest Management in Sugarcane Cropping Systems 113
François-Régis Goebel and Amin Nikpay

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9 Integrated Pest Management in Cotton 134
Shoil M. Greenberg and Megha N. Parajulee
10 Integrated Pest Management in Tropical Vegetable Crops 175
Luko Hilje, Edison R. Sujii and Urbano Nava-Camberos
11 Integrated Pest Management and Good Agricultural Practice Recommendations
in Greenhouse Crops 204
Abdelhaq Hanafi and Carmelo Rapisarda
12 Integrated Pest Management in Banana and Plantain 229
Daniel L. Coyne, Thomas Dubois and Mieke S. Daneel
13 Integrated Pest Management in Citrus 246
Giuseppe E. Massimino Cocuzza and Carmelo Rapisarda
14 Integrated Pest Management in Oil Palm Plantations in Malaysia 270
Norman Kamarudin, Siti Ramlah A. Ali, Ramle Moslim, Zulkefli Masijan and
Mohd Basri Wahid
15 Integrated Pest Management in Tea, Cocoa and Coffee 285
Devid Guastella, Giuseppe E. Massimino Cocuzza and Carmelo Rapisarda
16 Integrated Insect Pest Management in Tropical Forestry 313
Nitin Kulkarni
Index 343
Contributors
Tsedeke Abate, International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT) – ICRAF
House, United Nations Avenue, Gigiri, PO Box 1041, Village Market-00621, Nairobi,
Kenya
Siti Ramlah A. Ali, Malaysia Palm Oil Board (MPOB), Biological Research Division, No. 6
Persiaran Institusi, Bandar Baru Bangi, 43000 Kajang, Selangor, Malaysia
Miguel A. Altieri, Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management,
University of California, Berkeley, 215 Mulford Hall, Berkeley, California 94720-3112,
USA
Salvatore Bella, Council for Agricultural Research and Economic Analysis, Research
Centre for Citrus and Mediterranean Crops (CREA-ACM), Corso Savoia 190, 95024
Acireale (CT), Italy
Daniel L. Coyne, International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA), PO Box 30772-
00100, Nairobi, Kenya
Mieke S. Daneel, ARC-Institute for Tropical and Subtropical Crops, PB X11208, Nelspruit,
1200, South Africa
Fábio Maximiano de Andrade Silva, Insecticide Resistance Action Committee (IRAC),
Brazil and DuPont do Brasil S.A., Rodovia PLN 145, 943, Bairro Boa Esperança,
Paulínia-SP, Brazil
José Gilberto de Moraes, Departamento de Entomologia e Acarologia, ESALQ, USP, 13418-
900, Piracicaba, São Paulo, Brazil
Thomas Dubois, The World Vegetable Center, Eastern and Southern Africa, PO Box 10,
Duluti, Arusha, Tanzania
Odair Aparecido Fernandes, Departamento de Fitossanidade, FCAV, Universidade
Estadual Paulista – UNESP, 14884-900, Jaboticabal, São Paulo, Brazil
François-Régis Goebel, CIRAD, Unité de Recherche AIDA, 34398 Montpellier cedex 5,
France
Shoil M. Greenberg, (retired), Kika de la Garza Subtropical Agricultural Research Center,
Agricultural Research Service, United States Department of Agriculture, Weslaco,
Texas, 12472 Brookline Street, Carmel, Indiana 46032, USA
Devid Guastella, Agrisudafrica (Pty) Ltd, Springvallei Road D601, PO Box 31, Franklin
4706, South Africa

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Abdelhaq Hanafi, International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), Via Paolo di
Dono 44, 00142 Rome, Italy
Luko Hilje, Professor Emeritus, Tropical Agricultural Research and Higher Education
Center (CATIE), Turrialba, Costa Rica
Norman Kamarudin, Malaysia Palm Oil Board (MPOB), Biological Research Division, No.
6 Persiaran Institusi, Bandar Baru Bangi, 43000 Kajang, Selangor, Malaysia
Fred Kanampiu, International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA), PO Box 30772-
00100, icipe-campus, Kasarani, Nairobi, Kenya
Nitin Kulkarni, Forest Entomology Division, Tropical Forest Research Institute, PO-RFRC,
Jabalpur – 482021, India
James Legg, International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA), PO Box 34441, Dar es
Salaam, Tanzania
George Mahuku, International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA), Regional Hub for
Eastern Africa, Plot 25, Light Industrial Area, Coca Cola Road, Mikocheni, PO Box
34441, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
Zulkefli Masijan, Malaysia Palm Oil Board (MPOB), Biological Research Division, No. 6
Persiaran Institusi, Bandar Baru Bangi, 43000 Kajang, Selangor, Malaysia
Giuseppe E. Massimino Cocuzza, Dipartimento di Agricoltura, Alimentazione e Ambiente,
Università degli Studi, via Santa Sofia 100, 95123 Catania, Italy
Ramle Moslim, Malaysia Palm Oil Board (MPOB), Biological Research Division, No. 6
Persiaran Institusi, Bandar Baru Bangi, 43000 Kajang, Selangor, Malaysia
Urbano Nava-Camberos, Facultad de Agricultura y Zootecnia, Universidad Juárez del
Estado de Durango, Gómez Palacio, Durango, México
Clara I. Nicholls, Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management,
University of California, Berkeley, 215 Mulford Hall, Berkeley, California 94720-3112,
USA
Amin Nikpay, Department of Plant Protection, Sugarcane and By-products Development
Company, Salman Farsi Unit, Ahwaz, Iran
Joshua Okonya, International Potato Center (CIP), PO Box 22274, Kampala, Uganda
Megha N. Parajulee, Texas A&M University System, Texas A&M AgriLife Research, 1102
East FM 1294, Lubbock, Texas 79403, USA
Silvana V. Paula-Moraes, Entomology and Nematology Department, University of Florida,
West Florida Research and Education Center, Jay, Florida 32565, USA
Carmelo Rapisarda, Dipartimento di Agricoltura, Alimentazione e Ambiente, Università
degli Studi, Via Santa Sofia 100, 95123 Catania, Italy
Alexandre Specht, Embrapa Cerrados, BR-040, Km 18, Planaltina-DF, Brazil
Edison R. Sujii, Empresa Brasileira de Pesquisa Agropecuária (EMBRAPA), Centro Nacional
de Pesquisa em Recursos Genéticos e Biotecnologia (CENARGEN), Parque Estação
Biológica, Brasilia, DF, Brazil
Mohd Basri Wahid, Malaysia Palm Oil Board (MPOB), Biological Research Division, No. 6,
Persiaran Institusi, Bandar Baru Bangi, 43000 Kajang, Selangor, Malaysia
Vitalis Wafula Wekesa, Department of Biological Science and Technology, Technical
University of Kenya, PO Box 52428-00200, Nairobi, Kenya
Everlyne Wosula, International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA), Regional Hub for
Eastern Africa, Plot 25, Light Industrial Area, Coca Cola Road, Mikocheni, PO Box
34441, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
1
Introduction
Carmelo Rapisarda* and Giuseppe E. Massimino Cocuzza
Dipartimento di Agricoltura, Alimentazione e Ambiente,
Università degli Studi, Catania, Italy
1.1 Tropics and Subtropics As a consequence of climatic change,
dispersal of organisms is becoming increas-
The Tropics, geographically limited in lati- ingly frequent, especially to more northern
tude by the Tropic of Cancer (to the north) latitudes, causing deep changes to global
and the Tropic of Capricorn (to the south), biodiversity (Engel et al., 2011). Thus, we
are characterized by limited seasonal differ- are witnessing an increasing number of
ences, with a mean warm to high tempera- invasions of subtropical environments by
ture and a high humidity level almost all typical tropical species, which can some-
year round, at most with difference between times move even up to temperate regions
a dry and a rainy season (McGregor and (Levine and D’Antonio, 2003; Parker et al.,
Nieuwolt, 1998). Plant diversity and biol- 2006; Levine, 2008; Roques et al., 2010). For
ogy are influenced by these peculiar climatic their high displacement capacity, also of
conditions and herbivores may develop anthropogenic origin, crop pests signifi-
almost continuously throughout the year cantly respond to this trend and important
in these regions, showing homodynamic examples may be found in the context of
cycles and high biodiversity, whatever their various crop types, such as vegetables, on
trophic habits. which the Tomato leaf miner has rapidly
Slightly similar features are shown by invaded nearly all subtropical and most
the Subtropics, which extend from the temperate areas of Europe, Africa and Asia
Tropics to the temperate regions (to about (Desneux et al., 2010); or citrus, always
40° latitude) and are characterized by warm characterized for being susceptible to being
to hot summers and cool to mild winters, colonized by exotic species but recently
thus with a well-defined seasonality but threatened, in the Mediterranean region, by
with almost rare frost (Rohli and Vega, two tropical vectors of dangerous patho-
2015). This relative similarity between gens, such as the Black citrus aphid Toxop-
Tropics and Subtropics allows frequently tera citricidus (Kirkaldy), which is the main
tropical crops to be cultivated also in sub- vector of the Citrus Tristeza Virus, and the
tropical areas, with only gradual smooth African citrus psyllid Trioza erytreae (Del
changes of cultural contexts with increasing Guercio), vector of the Citrus huanglong-
latitude and some overlap of agroecological bing or greening disease (Hermoso de
environments, including the species com- Mendoza et al., 2008; Massimino Cocuzza
position of pests, their population dynam- et al., 2017). These continuous movements
ics and phytosanitary importance. of pests, and their constant invasion of new
* Corresponding author e-mail: [email protected]
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