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The vegetables pests plague everybody who has ever raised vegetables, from backyard gardener to professional horticulturists, farm managers and agro-business professionals. The economic impacts of vegetable pests are enormous. To manage and minimize the adverse impacts of pests, it is important to identify exactly which pests are affecting vegetable crops. The present book entitled 'Eco-friendly Pest Management Strategies for major vegetable crops' provides comprehensive knowledge on the insect pests of some selected vegetables, identification guides, descriptions of pest life history, damage symptoms, host plant relationships, natural enemies and pest management recommendations. In addition to above, the book also includes the use of lure traps and other eco-friendly management techniques for fruit flies and host plant resistance as a component to organic pest management in vegetable crops along with organic agriculture- myths and realities. Every gardener, horticulturalist, scientists, farmers, decision-makers and politicians who wish to build a safe agriculture should have this book as a complete reference.

Contents: 1. Eco-friendly pest management strategies for major vegetable crops. 2. Pests of brinjal (eggplant) and their eco-friendly management techniques/Tamoghna Saha, Hari Krishna, Nithya Chandran, Sharwan Kumar, Sailabala Dei and Archana Kumari. 3. Organic pest management strategies in tomato/Romila Akoijam, Atanu Seni and Sandip Patra. 4. Insect and non insect pests of chilli and their environment friendly management/Rachana R. R., RichaVarshney, Romila Akoijam and Jayasimha G. T. 5. Insect pests of okra and their eco-friendly management/Atanu Seni, Romila Akoijam and Sandip Patra. 6. Cruciferous vegetables: scope of organic based pest management/Shyam Babu Sah. 7. Leguminous vegetables: strategies of eco-friendly management of important insect pests/Biswajit Patra. 8. Pest problems and their eco-friendly management techniques in leafy vegetables/Gautam Chakraborty and S. Mondal. 9. Pest problem and their management strategies of tuber and root vegetable crops/Kalmesh Managanvi, Tamoghna Saha and Nithya Chandran. 10. Insect pests of moringa and their eco-friendly Management/Atanu Seni and Jaydeep Halder. 11. Use of lure traps and other eco-friendly techniques for organic pest management against fruit flies/Sheikh Khursheed and Farooz Hassan. 12. Host plant resistance as a component to organic pest management in vegetable crops/Rachana R. R., Richa Varshney, Romila Akoijam and Jayasimha G. T. 13. Organic agriculture: myths, realities and beyond/Prabuddha Ray and Sarthak Chowdhury.