Pest control

Pests of Stored Grains and Their Management

2nd Fully Revised and Enlarged Edition

by M.C.Bhargava & K.C. Kumawat

Description

The book covers uated information written in simple, lucid language, easily understandable by readers and summarizes the knowledge of insects and other pests of stored grains and grain products covering global scenario. Every chapter covers wider aspects of related work, storage requirement to prevent the losses of food grains at post harvest handling and at other levels too, different types of storage techniques and prevalent rural and improved storage structures and receptacles, storage pests (insects, mites, birds, rodents, microorganisms etc.), fumigants and their use, safety measures against poisoning, management of stored grain pests etc.

The revised edition gives the readers the vast knowledge about the progress made in different aspects of storage entomology. The book will serve as the valuable source of information on the storage entomology and would be of great importance for its readers. The book has good number of MCQs at the end of the book to help students along with colour images of insects and pests to easily identify them.

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Author Biography

M.C. Bhargava, Former Dean, College of Agriculture, Lalsot, Rajasthan Former Head, Department of Entomology, College of Agriculture,SKN Agriculture University, Jobner, Rajasthan & Former Principal Investigator of ICAR Project entitled, Bio-ecology and Management of Stored Grain Pests on Different Commodities in Rajasthan K.C. Kumawat, Professor, Department of Entomology, SKN College of Agriculture, SKN Agricultural University, Jobner, Rajasthan

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Bibliographic Information

  • Publisher/Imprint NIPA, New Delhi, India / NIPA
  • Publication Date July 2019
  • Orginal LanguageEnglish
  • ISBN/Identifier 9789387973671
  • Publication Country or regionIndia
  • FormatHardback
  • Primary Price 73.59 USD
  • Pages264
  • ReadershipProfessional and Scholarly
  • Publish StatusPublished
  • Original Language TitleEnglish
  • Original Language AuthorsEnglish
  • Edition2nd
  • Copyright Year2019
  • Dimensions216 x 140 mm

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