Pest Management Essay

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A pest is an organism that competes with people for food or fiber and interfere with raising crops and livestock. There are four main types of pests: invertebrates Disease agents Weeds
Vertebrates
This paper mainly deals with insects, an example of invertebrate and the most common pests.
Pests can be beneficial, meaning that they may produce a product or a bi-product or their body may contain a dye or food resource. Eg:silk,honey,or insects that are used as bait for fish. There are harmful insects too that feed on plants or on food of humans and on grain storage and on forest tress causing huge economic losses. It is very important to understand what makes the insects to act as strong pests. There are several reasons, the most …show more content…

Instead , they have hazardous effects on human, plant amd animal health. They also degrade soil quality and fertility. Therefore, there is a need for bio-compatible, green and efficient control measures that are harmless to environment. Research is in progress to employ nanotechnology to pest management.
NANOTECHNOLOGY FOR INSECT PEST MANAGEMENT
Nanotechnology has applications in wide range of fields like pharmaceuticals, electronics, medicine and agriculture including insect pest management. Nanopesticides, insecticides, enhancement of agricultural productivity using encapsulated nanoparticles for slow release of nutrients and water, nanoparticle-mediated gene or DNA transfer in plants to develop insect pest-resistant varieties and use of nanosensors, which would be useful in remote sensing devices required for precision farming are some examples of nanotechnology based insect pest measures.
Nanostructures occur in nature but were not given much importance. Research on nanotechnology have not used these naturally occurring materials. An example of nanostructures is hexagonal structures in the wings of cicada and termites.These nanoparticles help in the aerodynamic efficiency of the

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