Integrated Pest Management

Fact Integrated pest management, or IPM, is used to maximize crop production while minimizing hazards to health and to the environment. Instead of widespread chemical use, biological controls such as crop rotation, planting patterns, natural predators of pests, and pest-resistant crop varieties are used not to eradicate insects and weeds but to keep them at acceptable levels. Chemicals are used very selectively and only when other methods are insufficient.

Fact Home gardeners benefit as well: using IPM means spending less on pesticides and taking fewer health and environmental risks.



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