Pest and Disease Management Handbook (PDF)

Pest and Disease Management Handbook updates the 3rd edition
of the Pest and Disease Control Handbook (1989). The
structure of this important new book differs in several respects,
acknowledging the advances that have been made in integrated crop
management and the trends towards the more rational use of
pesticides.

Fully revised and up-to-date, the book commences with a new
introductory chapter covering the principles of pest and disease
management. Following chapters, each written by acknowledged
experts in the field, cover a group of major temperate northern
hemisphere crops. As well as comprehensive details of pest and
disease management strategies, each chapter also includes a
classification scheme for the cited pests and diseases.

This important publication is a vital tool for all those
involved in the crop protection / agrochemical industry including
business managers, entomologists, agricultural scientists, plant
pathologists and those studying and teaching BASIS courses. As an
important reference guide for undergraduate and postgraduate
students studying agricultural sciences, applied entomology and
crop protection, copies of the book should be available on the
shelves of all research establishments and universities where these
subjects are studied and taught.

Pest and Disease Management Handbook is published for the
British Crop Protection Council (BCPC) by Blackwell Science. BCPC
is a registered charity having the principal objective of promoting
the development, use and understanding of effective and sustainable
crop protection practice.

Dr David V Alford, based in Cambridge, UK, is a member of the
BCPC board, with many years' experience working as a government
entomologist.