What is a Crop Protection?
It is the Branch of horticulture which is concerned with protecting crops from pests, insects, weeds, and diseases. Use of “crop protecting” agents improves yield and quality of agricultural products, consumer preferences Prevents the spread of diseases to crops and livestock (Pierce’s Disease).
Cause of Crop Infection:
1) PESTS: Field crops are infected with a variety of pests. A pest is any destructive organism which causes great harm to crops by destroying crop plants or products obtained from them. These include weeds, insects, mites, rodents, fungi, bacteria etc… If these pests are not controlled at appropriate time then they can damage the crops to the extent of 50 to 70%.
Crop Protection chemicals
Crop Protection chemicals include all pesticides, herbicides, insecticides, fungicides, as well as biotechnology products. These Crop Protection Chemicals helps to control the thousands of weed species, harmful insects and numerous plant diseases that afflict crops.
1) Pesticides:
2) Herbicides: Herbicides are commonly known as weed killer. Herbicides are widely used in
2) Herbicides: Herbicides are commonly known as weed killer. Herbicides are widely used in
agriculture and landscape turf management.
3) Insecticides
4) Fungicides
4) Fungicides
Advantages of using Crop Protection Chemicals:
1) Increase food production
2) Decrease the cost of food: With the increase of the crop yield the cost of the food will also be decreased.
3) high-quality produce that is free of insect blemishes and insect contamination.
2) Decrease the cost of food: With the increase of the crop yield the cost of the food will also be decreased.
3) high-quality produce that is free of insect blemishes and insect contamination.
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