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A five-day grooming programme connected ‘Integrated Pest Management’ for agriculture and horticulture officers stressed connected the harmless and judicious usage of pesticides for safeguarding plants, humans and pollinators; antithetic types of damages owed to insects, and illness absorption successful large crops. The grooming volition extremity connected Friday (October 17, 2025).
The programme was organised astatine the Indian Grain Storage Management and Research Institute (IGMRI), Rajendranagar, by the Central Integrated Pest Management Centre.
How to curb the harmful effects of rodents, chaotic boar and monkeys successful large crops, and integrated farming, were besides discussed.
IPM practices
Sunitha Pandey, in-charge associated director, IPM division, emphasised connected adopting Integrated Pest Management practices specified arsenic installation of pheromone traps, airy traps, sticky traps and biologic agents, for pest control.
Suneetha Routhu, works extortion serviceman astatine the Central IPM Centre successful Hyderabad, said that the grooming was fixed to the agriculture and horticulture officers truthful that they tin marque farmers aware. Reduced pesticide usage and adoption of IPM practices assistance successful protecting the situation and providing harmless food, she said.
