12 Ways that will help you to Decrease the Excessive Agro-chemicals Applications

                  Stop Overuse of Pesticides

Excessive pesticide application not only destroys the ecosystem and also causing serious damages to human as well as different animals similarly food quality is also deteriorating from these. In this article I will tell you how can you reduce the pesticide usage in crops which is given below. Integrated Pest Management consisted of following ways:

1. Best land preparation practices should adapted to avoid the soil borne insect pest larvae, pupae or microbial pests.
2. Infestation of weeds can be control through hoeing, mowing and mulching, not by herbicides.
3. Research for the plants that oppose the insects like garlic, marigold and mint.
4. Promote organic farming rather than artificial application of chemicals.
5. Promote pest enemies insects like parasites, parastoides and predators by artificial rearing and importation can helpful against pest species of concerning crops.
6. Make legislation and long term managements for controlling pest in major crops for specific area and even country level.
7. Pest can be control through various microbes families which includes bacteria, viruses, fungi etc,. Some examples are viruses family Baculviridae cause disease in lapidopteran. Some bacteria like Bacillus popillae in beetle and serratia in grubs etc.    
8. Different type of traps can be use to control the pest population like light traps, pheromone traps, bait traps and yellow sticky traps etc. 
9. Some Mechanical control activities can help to control the pest population in a field like banding, trenching, wrapping the fruits, water barrier, tin barrier, electric fencing and netting etc.
10.  Some mechanical forces are crop pest target specific in nature like entoletter, tillage implements,hopper dozer and mechanical traps etc.
11. Some physical control of insect are also used internationally like control of temperature, light, moisture, air and irradiation can cause dramatic damage to insects.
12. Pest avoidance is also helpful to reduce the pest infestation and ultimately will require less pesticide application.

By applying above practices, there will be less requirement of agro-chemicals in crops. Environment friendly practices could be use at grass root level to country level can be best approach for the future. The mentioned ways are cost effective and less time consuming will helpful in country economy.

Referral Links:

•  https://www.slideshare.net/ARUN5218/insect-ecology-and-ipm
•  https://www.researchgate.net/publication/286042190_Effects_of_Pesticides_on_Environment
• https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2984095/#:~:text=Impact%20on%20environment,%2C%20and%20non-target%20plants.
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biological_pest_control