Food production integrated crop management

The IQC has three components, in horizontal rows, which describe the life processes of growth and differentiation, and their integration. The vertical columns give the four different descriptions for crop management, the physiological life processes, the properties of the crop and the properties of the food product. 

Pesticides are considered a necessary evil however, it has been estimated that without their use food expenditure for western families would more than double (Zilberman et al. 1991) and, much worse, food shortage would be more acute in many third world countries about 40% crop production would be lost, according to FAO. Pest and pesticide control is probably the sector where a really integrated view of farm management is most required certainly, pest treatments by calendar as largely in use till a few years ago and still in use today here and there are unsustainable. The principles of targeting interventions according to real need as advocated... 

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