About Lesson
Advantages and disadvantages of physical method of insect control
Advantage
- Readily available and adopted by the farmers
- Do not required any extra investment
- No need of experience of supervisors/ exports
- No problem of resistance
- Safe to man, environment and natural enemies
- More attractive in context of sustainable agriculture
Disadvantage
- It should be required the life cycle and biology of insect
- Should be applied well in advance
- Always does not result economic return
- Specific to particular pest only
- Sometimes needs the cooperation of farmers in large area in order to be effective