Introduction:-
The population is increasing
day by day, so facing the problem of food and decrease the agricultural
land to overcome this problem and increase (boost) agricultural products. The
gov. of India brought the “Green Revolution”. So we having surplus production
of food. We become exporter in the world. However this resolution is temporary,
because of water chemicals and fertilizers when used on a large scale to make
green revolution.
People being used large amount of fertilizers, chemicals without taking into consideration amount. This cause the other problems like soil erosion, increase soil salitation , ground water pollution, pesticides, pest resistance, imbalance emergence of new pest diseases and environment. This result in the sterility of lands, danger of transformation of fertile land into barren land( Those ecosystems in which less than one third of the area has vegetation or other cover. In general, Barren Land has thin soil, sand, or rocks.)
Over 500 million tones of agriculture production is lost annually due to
the plant disease and insect pest worldwide, So the economic conditions of
farmers decreasing, So there is a urgent need of development of farming techniques,
Which are sustainable for environment and social economic point of view (this
means to generate sufficient food production without damaging resources and eco
friendly cost beneficial pest management).
Scope /objectives of the course:-
1. To providing
simple, and understandable applies syllabus
2. Provides
direction of higher education towards the social benefits, To extend the
knowledge for laboratory to field.
3. To
prevent the knowledge in student recent technologies in agriculture.
4. To provide
the jobs oriented syllabus to student.
5. To
provide the skills among the student.
6. To achieve
the goal of national polices.
7. To
provides the eco friendly technologies.
Concept of pest:-
The pest are capable to feeding almost all types of organic matters. The insects was damage the crop plants in the field, fruit plant, stored food / grains even the properties. The pest can cause even health problems to man and is domestic animals.
Definition :-" The organism which can cause damage to the crop plant, domestic animal stored food and himself such organism is called pest".
OR
"Organism which can cause damage to the human property and himself is called as pest".