Major economic issues in integrated pest management.

Abstract

Abstract This chapter focuses on economic issues in integrated pest management (IPM) in animal and crop production. The types of costs involved in major approaches to IPM were provided. Economic analyses on classical biological control, choice of livestock breed and crop variety, schedule for crop or livestock paddock rotation, physical design of landscape, augmentive biological control, insecticides and chemicals used to attract, confuse or repel pests and genetic control were also discussed.