pest control
collocation in Englishmeaningsofpestandcontrol
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pest
noun[C]
uk/pest/us/pest/
an insect or small animal that is harmful or ...
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control
noun
uk/kənˈtrəʊl/us/kənˈtroʊl/
the act of controlling something or someone, or the power to ...
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These practices may include cover crops, manures, compost, crop rotation, intercropping, and biologicalpestcontrol.
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However, while normal inputs such as fertilizer and labor tend to increase output directly,pestcontrolagents rather reduce potential crop losses.
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Their corporate purveyors promised higher yields with betterpestcontroland lower expenditure on chemicals.
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A predator is also more likely to be effective forpestcontrolif it exhibits a density-dependent response to pests.
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Instead, mechanical and biologicalpestcontrolmethods and pest-resistant varieties are required.
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Trials were managed optimally in terms of irrigation, fertility, and disease andpestcontrol.
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Is it economic to cultivate the decoy plant as apestcontrolmeasure compared to existing alternatives?
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Importantly, better training of farmers and advisors by governmental and non-governmental organizations has contributed to an improvement inpestcontrolin the last 15 years.
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Therefore, the efficacy ofpestcontroloften increases with the loss potential.
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Normal agronomic practices for each crop were followed except forpestcontrolwhich was not undertaken.
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In the countryside, the absence of government measures to ensurepestcontrolmade farmers' efforts to deal with a swarm of locusts futile.
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If markets for the grain legumes are secured, then monocropping with chemicalpestcontrolbecomes a possibility.
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A decision analysis approach to integratedpestcontrol.
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If so, however, we are not explicitly considering any trade-off between labour uses in crop production andpestcontrol.
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The specification of the demographic effect of thepestcontrolequation (2) is problematic since it should include the effect of the rat abundance.
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Without anypestcontrolinputs, crop damage would have been around 56 per cent.
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