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a)Intercropping.
-Practiced traditionally
-Reduces pest incidences e.g. cowpeas can be intercropped with sorghum, reduction of colleen bugs in coconut is due to intercropping with cashnuts.
-Planting disease and pest resistant crops e.g most farmers used to plant composite varieties of maize because they were resistant to maize stalk borer.
b)fallowing.
-Fallowing can also be done to starve the pest since some insects will not get suitable hosts.
c)spacing.
-Proper spacing to discourage attack of certain pests. Some insect pests increase when there’s close spacing.
d)Trap crops.
-Some pests have preference for certain crops which are not desired by the farmer.
-These crops can be used to attract the pests and they are sprayed with the insecticide. This act reduces the residues on the desired crop.
e)Irrigation.
-Causes direct harm e.g. flat irrigation can affect soil inhabiting pests.
-Over head irrigation suppresses foliage pests like aphids.
-Irrigation reduces stress in plants makes them more resist to pest infestation.
f)Crop rotation.
-Effective against insects of restricted host range e.g Chafuer crabs , root flies and some beetles.
g)Field hygiene/good sanitation.
-Keep the field clean by removing weeds which harbour pests. Remove the plant debris of the previous season.
h)Closed season.
-Defines a certain period when the crop in a certain area are not supposed to be in the field to avoid pest built up e,g Pink bollworm which is monophagus on cotton.
i)Special cultivation method.
-These are cultivations which will cause injury to pests in the soil. Some Lepidoptera larvae are exposed on the surface or some insect stages are buried deep in the soil.
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