Insect Pest Management in Conservation Agriculture

Nawaz, Ahmad; Ahmad, Jam Nazeer

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-11620-4_6

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“…Xiong [33] found highest peaks during 4 th week of February. Nawaz [34] found highest peaks at milking stage during 3 rd week of March. Rustamani et al [26] found highest peaks at heading or earing stage.…”

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Responses of different aphid species on wheat crop with relation to abiotic factors

Abbas¹

2023

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Wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) is one of the major stable food and cereal crop in all over the world as well as in Pakistan. However, it attached by various insect pests. The aphids, particularly Rhopalosiphum padi (L), Schizaphis graminum (L) and Sitobion avenae (F) species are among the major causes that severely affect wheat production across world. The main objective of this study was to check population dynamic of different aphid species with relation to abiotic factors. The experiment was conducted at Arid Zone Research Institute Bhakkar on three wheat varieties i.e. Fakhar-E-Bhakkar, Bhakkar Star, and Nishan 2021 under Randomized Completely Block Design. The mean population of three aphid species per tiller recorded every week by counting the number of aphids on ten tillers selected randomly from each selected field. The result of current study showed that the infestation of three aphids' species was started in the 2 nd week of February. The population of aphids per tiller increased as the vegetative growth proceeded and was highest in the 3 rd week of March. The R. padi was most dominant from 2 nd week of February to 1 st week of March. S. graminum was most dominant from 1 st week to 3 rd week of March, and similarly S.avenae was most dominant 2 nd to 3 rd week of March. Correlation of population dynamic of aphids with temperature and humidity had positive and significant impact on stem population i.e. (0.6150± 0.05) and (0.873±0.023), respectively. Temperature had positive and significant impact (0.264±0.614), but humidity had positive and non-significant impact (0.245±0.640) on leaves. While positive and non-significant impact on spike i.e. (0.372±0.467) and (0.084±0.875), respectively.

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Responses of different aphid species on wheat crop with relation to abiotic factors

Abbas¹

2023

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“…According to van Evert, Gaitán-Cremaschi, Fountas and Kempenaar (2017), a site-specific management in olive orchards is leading to an increase in productivity and product quality. In addition, Nawaz and Ahmad (2015) and Choudhary et al…”

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Precision Farming – Concepts and Perspectives

Beluhova-Uzunova

Dunchev

2019

Problems of Agricultural Economics / Zagadnienia Ekonomiki Roln

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The development of technologies in the 20 th century led to evolution of precision agriculture concept. Nowadays, precision farming is usually associated with the use of GPS and satellite navigation, GIS, unmanned airplanes and drones, variable rate of application, as well as complex and sophisticated computer systems and software. On the other hand, the main question is related to the profitability and efficiency of these technologies and the opportunities for their adoption. The main purpose of the research is to investigate the most popular concepts of precision farming and to analyze the technical and economic efficiency of different technologies based on literature review. The results indicate that the adoption of precision farming technologies is closely related to the farmer's perception of and needs for institutional support. The promotion of precision farming under the Common Agricultural Policy is necessary in order to overcome the number of economic and environmental challenges and ensure sustainable development and green growth.

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“…Yet, organic and conservation agricultures share common principles, like enhancing biological activity to increase resilience and autonomy. As conservation agriculture does not specifically address pest management, it could benefit from strategies and knowledge developed in organic agriculture on pest and predator life cycles and their interactions with the environment to manage these without synthetic nor mechanical inputs (Nawaz and Jam Nazeer, 2015). Since no curative tools remain to control pests under OC farming strategy, a greater understanding of ecological functions underpinning this ecosystem service is required.…”

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Combining organic and conservation agriculture to restore biodiversity? Insights from innovative farms in Belgium and their impacts on carabids and spiders

Boeraeve

Vialatte

Caro

et al. 2022

Front. Sustain. Food Syst.

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Conservation and organic agriculture are two alternative crop management strategies associated with environmental impact reduction, leading theoretically to more biodiversity and higher ecological functioning, underpinning better ecosystem service delivery. The combination of these two farming strategies is increasingly seen as an opportunity to mitigate shortcomings of each of them taken individually. However, combining organic and conservation agriculture is undeniably challenging, since it leaves no curative option (neither synthetic pesticides nor soil plowing) for pest control (phytophagous, pathogens, and weeds). Hence, the latter must be ensured by effective restoration of predatory communities. The present research investigated the potential of combining organic and conservation agriculture to support two major ground-dwelling natural enemy communities: carabids and spiders. We used pitfall traps to sample these two communities in paired adjacent cereal fields conducted under organic-conservation (OC) and conventional (CV) agriculture in Belgium. Community assemblages were significantly different across system types, both in terms of species diversity and functional trait diversity. OC parcels showed higher alpha and beta species diversities for both carabids and spiders and species composition differed between OC and CV parcels. OC systems were associated with higher variation of species assemblages among parcels than CV systems Functional traits also differed across system types for both groups. We found more herbivorous and granivore carabids in OC parcels, and more predator species in CV parcels. We found larger spiders, more hunting spiders and more wetland spiders in OC parcels, whereas we found more web weavers and more forest spiders in CV ones. Functional diversity was higher in OC parcels for carabids, but not for spiders. In brief, OC parcels supported more diverse communities, both taxonomically and functionally. These outcomes show that OC systems are promising systems to support these natural enemy communities. Further studies should assess whether combining organic and conservation agricultural enables sufficient pest control levels to achieve high levels of food production and farmers income.

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Insect Pest Management in Conservation Agriculture

Cited by 10 publications

References 87 publications

Responses of different aphid species on wheat crop with relation to abiotic factors

Responses of different aphid species on wheat crop with relation to abiotic factors

Precision Farming – Concepts and Perspectives

Combining organic and conservation agriculture to restore biodiversity? Insights from innovative farms in Belgium and their impacts on carabids and spiders

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