Brown Planthopper
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Why read it?
1 author picked Brown Planthopper as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
I loved this book because it provides the world’s best example of a minor pest that became a major pest because of the change in cultural practices that accompanied the advent of the Green Revolution in rice. It is also the best example of pest resurgence, which occurs when pests previously controlled by pesticides recur but in higher numbers than they did before due to the destruction of the pest’s natural enemies by pesticides.
This book consists of 22 chapters presented by world-renowned authors at a 1979 symposium on the economic impact of the pest, biology and ecology, taxonomy, forecasting,…
From E.A.'s list on tropical Asia rice diseases weeds bugs rats.
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