NAME: MAYNARD M.

BALUYUT DATE: July 25,2020

PROFESSOR: MARY GRACE B. GATAN
FINAL EXAM (Advance Crop Protection Management 201)

In the Philippine setting of agriculture we are blessed for having a vast land
for cultivation of soil and raising of animals. Its output maintains the local demand
and considered to be fundamental commodities the nation. Commercial crops help
both the rural trade industry as well as the residential request and utilization.
Growing crops for food utilization and fiber have been a deep rooted action within the
Philippines. Within the last few years, developing a million hectares of arrive has
consistently expanded. Maybe what has been a common situation recently is how
local people are creating their land to raise their plants.
For farmers, IPM is the leading combination of cultural, natural and chemical
measures to oversee diseases, insects, weeds and other pests. It takes under
consideration all important control strategies and methods that are locally accessible,
assessing their potential cost-effectiveness. IPM does not, however, consist of any
supreme or inflexible criteria. It is an adaptable framework that creates good use of
local resources and the latest research, innovation, information and experience. IPM
may be a site-specific procedure for overseeing bothers in the most cost-effective,
ecologically sound and socially acceptable way. Usage of IPM lies with farmers, who
receive practices they see as viable and important to their activities.
Integrated pest management (IPM) comprises techniques pointed at
minimizing pest damage through the cautious integration of accessible pest control
innovations. It gives priority to non-chemical control components such as host-plant
resistance and organic and social controls, as it were utilizing chemical controls
when alternatives are clearly impossible to manage adequate protection. In tropical
agricultural systems, where pesticides are increasingly costly and posture dangers to
farmers and consumers, reduced utilize of pesticides through IPM has numerous
financial and social as well as environmental preferences. Decreased utilize of
chemicals infers diminished cash and other capital inputs into production systems,
and for this reason IPM approaches tend to be more economical in small-scale
agricultural systems. At the same time, IPM procedures minimize natural harm and
wellbeing risks. In any case, in show disdain toward of the numerous proven
advantages of IPM, and the self-evident require for the benefits it offers, its
implementation, particularly in developing countries.
 The essential structure of all IPM programs includes a assortment of pest and
disease control products that incorporate social, physical, chemical and biological
strategies. All of these components must be intentionally coordinates to work in pair
to guarantee they are more compelling than chemical controls as it were utilized. To
develop an Integrated Pest Management in a particular crop you should consider the
location of your farm where your cultivars is being planted it is huge factor that may
affects the IPM on your crops, the plant/variety that you are going to plant kindly
select a disease resistant variety sometimes there are plants that host for diseases
and pathogens, know your pest enemy for those farmers that are not familiar to the
beneficial and harmful insect, include crop rotation take into consideration for the
controlling of the life cycle of previous insect on that particular crop, choose the right
treatment for particular diseases there’s an instance that some vegetable farmer
don’t know how to control pest and diseases just only spray insecticide and
pesticide. And you should know when to scout it is important for the farmer to know
when.

There are some ways on applying insect-pest management in watermelon.

First thing to consider is choose a diseased-resistant and tolerant varieties in order
to lessen the damage of diseases, perform crop rotation just to stop the life cycle of
previous insects pest and diseases and it will not able to survive due to removal of
host plant or crop, you can used of biological control with means of ladybird beetle
the predator of melon aphid (Aphis gossypii ) and for last the used of synthetic or
chemical pesticide or insecticide.

Mechanical and Physical control- includes change of the environment by

physical implies to make it antagonistic or blocked off to the pest insects.
1. manipulation of water or humidity ( draining, dehydrating or flooding the
breeding media)
2. manipulation of temperature like burning
3. use of electric shock
4. use of light and other radiant energy
5. use of sound waves.
6. Cultural Method
Cultural Method - Regular farm operations performed so as to destroy
insects or prevent their injuries.
Example: weeding, crop rotation, intercropping, tilling, physical barriers,
planting resistant varieties
 Biological control- This is the introduction, encouragement and artificial
increase of predaceous and parasitic insects.
Example: introduction of predator, pathogens, parasites, diseases,
vertebrates

Chemical control: This refers to the destruction of insect pests through the
use of chemicals, such as pesticides and insecticides. This method is not
environmentally friendly in the sense that it may kill other beneficial insects and offer
harm to other living things like animals and men.
Example: Stomach poson, contact poison, fumigates, systemic poison,
inorganic compounds

Legal Control. This is the eradication of insects by controlling human

activities.
Example:
a. Inspection and quarantine laws prevent the introduction of new pests
from foreign countries or their spread within a country.
b. Introduction of laws enforce the application of control measures such
as spraying, the cleaning up of crop residues, fumigation and eradication measures.
c. Insecticide laws govern the manufacture and sale and to prevent the
adulteration and misbranding of insecticides.
d. Poison residue laws fix the tolerance of various insecticides upon food
products offered for sale or transportation.

For me to understand the realistic and timely quotes of Whetzel “"For what will
it profit us if all the illness and diseases of people will vanish and yet suffer starvation
because of diseases in crops." It means we need to be more conscious when it
comes to the food do we ate every day. What will going you to do to your profit if you
have all the diseases or illness came to the food you ate. Life is short you need to be
aware, wise and careful. As a farmer/teacher I need to cope up in new trends in IPM
without compromising the health of people who patronizing our products, be
responsible, and be healthy. THANKYOU