Integrated Pest Management of Tropical Vegetable Crops

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xix

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2. IPM for Food and Environmental Security in the Tropics

   • E. A. Heinrichs, Rangaswamy Muniappan

   Pages 1-31

3. IPM Packages for Tropical Vegetable Crops

   • Rangaswamy Muniappan, E. A. Heinrichs, Amer Fayad

   Pages 33-40

4. Virus Diseases of Tropical Vegetable Crops and Their Management

   • Sue A. Tolin, Amer Fayad

   Pages 41-76

5. Exploring the Potential of Trichoderma for the Management of Seed and Soil-Borne Diseases of Crops

   • Sevugapperumal Nakkeeran, Perumal Renukadevi, K. E. A. Aiyanathan

   Pages 77-130

6. Physical, Mechanical and Cultural Control of Vegetable Insects

   • Kenneth A. Sorensen, Subbarayalu Mohankumar, Sonai Rajan Thangaraj

   Pages 131-148

7. Integrated Pest Management of Cruciferous Vegetables

   • Chinnasamy Durairaj, Subramaniam Sambathkumar, Subbarayalu Mohankumar

   Pages 149-165

8. Integrated Pest Management of Okra in India

   • Subbarayalu Mohankumar, Gandhi Karthikeyan, Chinnasamy Durairaj, Sowrirajan Ramakrishnan, Bangaru Preetha, Subramaniam Sambathkumar

   Pages 167-177

9. Integrated Pest Management for Onion in India

   • Govindasamy Gajendran, Dhakshinamoorthy Dinakaran, Subbarayalu Mohankumar, Gandhi Karthikeyan, Rangaswamy Muniappan

   Pages 179-207

10. IPM Packages for Naranjilla: Sustainable Production in an Environmentally Fragile Region

    • Jose Ochoa, Corinna Clements, Victor Barrera, Juan Manuel Dominguez, Michael A. Ellis, Jeffrey Alwang

    Pages 209-221

11. IPM Technologies for Potato Producers in Highland Ecuador

    • Vanessa Carrion, Patricio Gallegos, Victor Barrera, George W. Norton, Jeffrey Alwang

    Pages 223-233

12. Integrated Pest Management of Vegetable Crops in Bangladesh

    • Md. Yousuf Mian, Md. Shahadath Hossain, A. N. M. Rezaul Karim

    Pages 235-249

13. Development and Dissemination of Vegetable IPM Practices and Packages in Nepal

    • Sulav Paudel, Lalit P. Sah, Komal Pradhan, Luke A. Colavito, Bharat P. Upadhyay, Edwin G. Rajotte et al.

    Pages 251-269

14. IPM Vegetable Systems in Uganda

    • Jeninah Karungi, J. Mark Erbaugh, Robinah N. Ssonko, Jackline Bonabana-Wabbi, Sally A. Miller, Samuel Kyamanywa

    Pages 271-287

15. Impacts of IPM on Vegetable Production in the Tropics

    • George W. Norton, Jeffrey Alwang, Majdeddin Sayed Issa

    Pages 289-304

It is an edited book with chapters written by multi-disciplinary specialists in their specific subject areas. It covers development of IPM components and packaging them for individual vegetable crops specifically targeted to tropical countries. Scientific background for IPM components or tactics will be included. There will be case studies of IPM packages developed and implemented in different countries. The concept of IPM has been in existence for the past six decades; however, a practical holistic program has not been developed and implemented for vegetable crops, in the developing countries.   Currently the IPM adoption rate in the tropics is minimal and there is a need for implementation of IPM technologies that are environmentally safe, economical, and socially acceptable. We believe that adoption and implementation of IPM provided in this book will lead to significant reduction in crop losses and mitigate adverse impacts of pesticide use in the tropics. This book is an outcome 20 years of research, development and implementation of the IPM CRSP, a project supported by USAID and administered by Virginia Tech in several developing countries along the tropical belt in Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean. ​

• Food security
• IPM
• Pests
• Vegetable Crops
• Tropics
• Impact Assessment
• Entomology

• Virginia Tech, Director IPM CRSP Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, USA

  Rangaswamy Muniappan

• Department of Entomology, University of Nebraska Department of Entomology, Lincoln, USA

  E. A. Heinrichs

Editors: 
Prof. Rangaswamy Muniappan

Prof. E. A. Heinrichs

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