Overview
This e-lesson is part of Crop Production Level 3, Learning Unit 3: Proper maintenance of vegetable plantation according to requirements and market quality standards, Learning Outcome 3.3: Maintain vegetable plantation according to requirements and market quality standards.
Did you know that by protecting crops against pests and diseases, you can enhance crop quality and yield, and improve crop market value?
Introduction
Maintaining healthy growth is fundamental for high quality crop production, market access, and income generation. Pests and diseases are very damaging to crop health, and without proper management, can cause serious loss and devastation for farmers.
In this e-lesson, you will learn various cultural, physical, and chemical control methods that can be used to protect crops against pests and diseases.
Learning Objectives
By the end of this e-lesson, you will be able to:
- Accurately differentiate between cultural, physical, and chemical pest and disease control methods
- Apply cultural methods such as mulching correctly
- Use physical control methods such as insect traps appropriately
- Correctly apply chemical control methods such as pesticides on tomato plants
- Accurately differentiate between cultural, physical, and chemical pest and disease control methods