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Advisory Work in Crop Pest and Disease Management

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  • © 1986

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Editors:
  1. Josef Palti

    1. Agricultural Research Organization The Volcani Center, Bet Dagan, Israel

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  2. Reuben Ausher

    1. Extension Service, Ministry of Agriculture, Tel Aviv, Israel

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Part of the book series: Crop Protection Monographs (CROP)

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Table of contents (18 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XX
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  2. Advisory Work in Pest and Disease Management in the General Framework of Agricultural Production

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. The Place of Pest and Disease Management in the Agricultural Economy, and Its Legal Framework

      • J. Palti, R. Ausher
      Pages 3-6

    3. Crop Protection Advice: Its Place in the General Scheme of Farming and of Farm Advice

      • Y. Elkana, J. Palti, R. Ausher
      Pages 7-14

    4. Basic Knowledge and Current Information for the Crop Protection Adviser

      • J. Palti
      Pages 15-18

    5. Farmers’ Perceptions of Pest and Disease Control

      • J. Palti
      Pages 19-20

  3. Advice for Pest and Disease Control: Tasks and Tools

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 21-21
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    2. The Range of Crop Protection Advice Is Extremely Wide

      • J. Palti
      Pages 23-24

    3. Detection and Diagnosis of Crop Disorders and of Pest and Disease Occurrence

      • Z. Arenstein, J. Golan, J. Palti, I. Dishon
      Pages 25-44

    4. Crop Value, Economic Damage Thresholds, and Treatment Thresholds

      • J. Palti, R. Ausher
      Pages 45-56

    5. Pest and Disease Monitoring and Management

      • A. Genizi, H. Frankel, J. Palti, R. Ausher, C. H. Blazquez, R. Hochberg et al.
      Pages 57-131

    6. Pesticide Application: Technique and Efficiency

      • H. Frankel
      Pages 132-160

    7. The Crop Protection Adviser

      • Y. Elkana, J. Palti, R. Ausher, J. Eshel
      Pages 161-173

  4. How Crop Protection Advice Is Given in Various Countries: a Diversity of Objectives and Approaches

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 175-175
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    2. Crop Protection: The Role of the Agricultural Development and Advisory Service in England and Wales

      • J. T. Fletcher
      Pages 177-193

    3. Advisory Work in Crop Protection in the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG)

      • K. Hanuss, W. Beicht
      Pages 194-207

    4. Advice on Pest and Disease Control in Israel

      • J. Golan, J. Palti
      Pages 208-219

    5. Plant Protection Advisory Work in the University of California Cooperative Extension Office

      • I. J. Thomason, Nick C. Toscano
      Pages 220-230

    6. Dissemination of Pest Management Information in the Midwest, U.S.A.

      • B. D. Blair
      Pages 231-233

    7. Implementing a Statewide Pest Management Program for Texas, U.S.A.

      • R. E. Frisbie, G. M. McWhorter
      Pages 234-262
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About this book

Advisory work, by its very nature, is an intermediary between the re­ search worker and those who apply the results of his research. The challenge of advisory work is to devise means of and find pathways for transmitting research results to the user, overcome the reluctance of the latter to change, and often combine novel ideas with well-estab­ lished traditions. Nowhere is this challenge greater than in farming. This is especially true in developing countries, where the gap in the educational level between research workers and farmers may be ex­ tremely wide. Moreover, village-level advisers are often overburdened with non-professional functions and are not sufficiently backed up by well-trained professional advisers. Thus, in many of these countries there is a serious discrepancy between the knowledge available and that needed and actually applied on the farm. Advisory work in crop protection is no exception, but profits to some extent from two facts: (1) because of the potentially catastrophic nature of pest attack, governments often operate a supervisory crop protection service, the staff of which may be able to dispense some pest control advice; and (2) the staff of pesticide distributors tends to fill, at least in part, the need for advice on how to fight pests and dis­ eases with chemicals.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Agricultural Research Organization The Volcani Center, Bet Dagan, Israel

    Josef Palti

  • Extension Service, Ministry of Agriculture, Tel Aviv, Israel

    Reuben Ausher

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Advisory Work in Crop Pest and Disease Management

  • Editors: Josef Palti, Reuben Ausher

  • Series Title: Crop Protection Monographs

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-70992-0

  • Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 1986

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-540-16242-1Published: 01 May 1986

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-70992-0Published: 06 December 2012

  • Series ISSN: 1431-1895

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XX, 284

  • Number of Illustrations: 13 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Agriculture, Forestry, Ecology, Ecotoxicology

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