Advanced Course on Non Pesticide Management
After implementing in the 2005-06 NPM is widely accepted by academicians, developmental organisations and in agroecological approaches. In these 15 years, NPM has also evolved based on the issues faced, lessons learnt and resource constraints in some areas. With all those learning, the course is designed to suit the front-line workers and resource persons to take the approach to the farmers.Course Features
- Lectures 60
- Quizzes 12
- Skill level Resource Persons, Frontline Workers, Practicing Farmers
- Language English
- Students 67
- Certificate Yes
- Assessments Yes
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Why Non Pesticidal Management?
Understanding insect Pests, Problems with current model pest management, Impacts of monocultures of crops, pesticides and disturbance in agroecology etc, understanding Integrated Pest Management (IPM), Insecticide Resistance Management (IRM)
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Why soils and plants are prone to diseases
Understanding plant diseases, Soil health and Plant diseases, Disease spread
- What is plant disease?
- How disease spread?
- How to identify the plant disease?
- Soil health and plant diseases
- Fungal diseases in plants
- Bacterial diseases in plants and management
- Viral Disease in Plants and management
- Nematode diseases in plants and management
- 2nd Section: Why soils and plants are prone to diseases
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When farm diversity becomes ‘weeds'
What are weeds, why plants becomes weeds, soil types and weeds, crop micro climate and weeds
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Issues with agro-chemicals – pesticides, weedicides
Issues with agrochemicals, their impact on farmers, human health and environment. Pesticide Regulation in India
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Risky technologies in pest and weed management – Genetically modified organisms
Issues with Genetically Modified Crops, Biosafety, Pest management paradigm with Insecticidal protiens, Lessons learnt from Bt Cotton,
- Genetically Modified Crops in Pest and Weed Management
- Bt crops and issues
- 20 years of Bt cotton in India: Lessons learnt
- Herbicide Tolerant Cotton and impacts
- Biosafety regulation in India
- Bt brinjal moratorium
- GM food crops
- Labelling and consumer choices
- 5th Section: Risky technologies in pest and weed management – Genetically modified organisms
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Climate Change and Pest shifts
Impact of climate change on the pest and diseases
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Understanding Agroecological approach to Pest, Disease and Weed Management
Fundamental principles of using agroecological approaches to pest and disease management
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Crop wise pest and disease management
Crop wise pest management
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Farm Made botanicals and microbials and their use in pests and disease management
Understanding basics of pest and disease management using locally available resources
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Bioenterprises and commercial organic formulations for pest and disease management
BioEnterprises for production of bioinputs, Commercial organic formulations, role of traps etc
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Tools for pest and disease monitoring-Pestoscope, pestSmart
Pest and disease surveillance, Pest and disease diagnostic tools
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Organising Farmer Field Schools for teaching Non Pesticidal Management
Teaching agroecological approaches, Farmer Field Schools etc
