Question

What are crop's pests? Suggest preventive measures to control pests.

Answer 1

Crop's pests are the organisms that destroy the growing crop plants by causing great economic loss. There are various pests of crop plants such as weeds, insects, mites, rodents, fungi, bacteria, and viruses.

Crop's pests can be controlled by following measures:
(i) Use of pesticides (insecticides, weedicides, and fungicides) that kill the insects, weeds, and fungal pests.
(ii) Use of resistant crop varieties.
(iii) Crop rotation and multiple cropping.
(iv) Clean cultivation.
(v) Sowing crops at optimum time.