Pest is one of the factors that can economically impact agriculture. It disrupts the plants’ normal growth as well as reduces the plant yields. Therefore, pest control inspection is important to ensure good growth and yield every year.
In agriculture, pest control means regulating or managing the animals that are defined as pests. Pests themselves are animals that can adversely impact human lives, including agriculture.
Farmers can respond in various ways to this problem depending on how heavy the damage is. It is usually ranging from tolerance, deterrence and management, then completely eradicating them.
There is a specific program developed for pest management that will help farmers with their pest control inspection. The method is called Integrated Pest Management (IPM). It is a pest management method that uses an effective and environmentally-friendly approach combined with common-sense practices.
This method gathers information on the pests' life cycles and how they interact with the environment and then uses common pest control methods to manage them. By doing this, pest damage can be controlled while at the same time maintaining low possible adverse effects on the environment and people.
Rather than a single method, IPM actually includes management, evaluation, decisions, and controls in handling the pests problem. Therefore, farmers need to understand the four-tier approach of IPM to be able to implement it well. Here are the four approaches:
The first step is setting up an action threshold, which means a limit when actions are necessary. In this step, the farmer needs to evaluate how bad the pest populations and the environmental condition are. If it reaches the threshold that was previously set up, it means action should be taken immediately.
Plants and various animals usually live harmoniously by benefiting each other. Therefore, be careful at classifying the animals and weeds that live on your farm. Not all of them can be categorized as pests and need to be eradicated. These steps can minimize the use of pesticides.
Pest management should be not only about eradicating the problem but also preventing it from happening. One of the methods used by the IPM is managing the crop or lawn in a way that helps farmers prevent pests from becoming a serious threat that can cause huge losses.
The last step is evaluating the proper control method in managing the pests infestation by considering the effectiveness and possible risk. In IPM, the first method to choose should be the effective but less risky one, such as disrupting the pest mating by using pheromones or performing weeding and trapping.
Pest control inspection is an important step in ensuring that the plant grows well and produces good yields. Using a digital tool such as Nimbly will help farmers streamline their field reporting and scale their compliance towards a good management process.
Also read How to Improve Compliance with SOPs Effectively
Pest control is not only about spraying pesticides since careless management will end up damaging the environment instead. Achieve success in pest control by conducting a thorough inspection with Nimbly.
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