Agro-ecological Approaches to Pest Management for Sustainable Agriculture

1. Agro-Ecological Pest Management - An Overview.- 2. Conservation Tillage.- 3. Crop Residue Management and Organic Amendments.- 4. Biofumigation.- 5. Fertilizer Management.- 6. Agro-forestry.- 7. Cover/Green Manure Cropping.- 8. Intercropping.- 9. Trap Cropping.- 10. Companion Planting.- 11. Habitat Management.- 12. Stimulo-Deterrent Diversion Strategy.- 13. Cultural Approaches.- 14. Weed Manipulation.- 15. Crop Rotation.- 16. Plant Breeding.- 17. Cultivar Mixtures/Multiline Cultivars.- 18. Allelopathy.- 19. Precision Agriculture.- 20. The Way Forward.

Dr. P. Parvatha Reddy obtained his Ph. D. degree jointly from the University of Florida, USA and the University of Agricultural Sciences, Bangalore. 

He served as the director of the prestigious Indian Institute of Horticultural Research (IIHR) at Bangalore from 1999 to 2002 during which time the Institute was honored with the "ICAR Best Institution Award." He also served as the head of the Division of Entomology and Nematology at IIHR and gave tremendous impetus and direction to research, extension and education in developing bio-intensive integrated pest management strategies in horticultural crops. Dr. Reddy has over 34 years of experience working with horticultural crops and was involved in developing an F1 tomato hybrid "Arka Varadan" resistant to root-knot nematodes. Dr. Reddy has over 250 scientific publications to his credit, including 30 books.

He is currently chairman of the Research Advisory Committee (RAC), Indian Institute of Vegetable Research, Varanasi; and senior scientific advisor at the Dr. Prem Nath Agricultural Science Foundation, Bangalore. He was also a member of the RAC at the National Centre for Integrated Pest Management, New Delhi; member of the Expert Panel for monitoring the National Initiative on Climate Resilient Agriculture (NICRA) research program on the topic of horticulture including pest dynamics and pollinators; member of the RAC of the National Research Centre for Citrus, Nagpur and the Project Directorate of Biological Control, Bangalore. He served as a member of the QRT to review the progress of the Central Tuber Crops Research Institute, Trivandrum; AICRP on Tuber Crops; AICRP on Nematodes and AINRP on Betel vine. He is an honorary fellow of the Society for Plant Protection Sciences, New Delhi; fellow of the Indian Phytopathological Society, New Delhi and founder president of the Association for Advancement of Pest Management in Horticultural Ecosystems (AAPMHE), Bangalore.

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