ABSTRACT

Biointensive integrated pest management (BIPM) is essentially a component of integrated pest management which helps to reduce the dependence on chemical pesticides thereby preventing ecological deterioration. The major elements of this approach includes many factors viz. host plant resistance, use of beneficial organism, agronomic practices, bio pesticides, parasitoids, predators, plant exudates etc. The most recent Biointensive integrated strategy for management of pest includes several components like physical methods which include hot water treatment of planting material, soil solarization and bio-rational chemicals like pheromones. The cultural methods includes crop rotation, summer ploughing, fallowing the land, intercropping, pruning, mulching, spacing, planting date, trap cropping, use of resistant cultivars, etc. Pheromone is a substance that is released into the environment by a member of a species that produces a specific response in members of the same species.