Integrated Pest Man Agement Summit Hill School District 161 Form

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Integrated Pest Management or IPM is a holistic pest management approach by selecting and using several pest control mechanism. It reduces the status of pests to tolerable levels while minimizing risks to the environment or human health. The goal of including IPM in the GLOBALG.A.P. framework is ultimately to ensure the sustainable production of a healthy crop. IPM consists of three main pillars: namely prevention monitoring and evaluation and intervention as a first step. Maximum effort should be made to prevent problems with pests diseases and weeds to avoid the need for intervention. Examples include rotation of crops ing to a predefined crop rotation program ensuring optimal plant spacing or plant density choosing more resistant plant varieties and root stocks and ensuring hygienic conditions. In and around the field secondly monitoring and evaluation is the systematic inspection of the crop and its surroundings to identify presence stage and intensity level of pests diseases and w