CPRT -Cultural Approach Flashcards
The practice of modifying the growing environment of the plants to make them more resilient against pests.
Cultural Control
Also defined as the deliberate alteration of the production system, either the cropping system itself or specific crop production practices, to reduce pest populations or avoid pest
injury to crops (Kogan, 1986).
Cultural Control
The term “Cultural Management” is derived from?
Crop Culture
Advantages of Cultural Control?
- Inexpensive – it utilizes resources available to
farmers - Compatible with other control measures
- Not hazardous
- Development of resistant strains of pests to cultural
control method is limited
A disadvantage of Cultural Control that requires organization of farmers and institutions which is
difficult to achieve
Synchronous Planting
- “tried and true” control technique
- involve one or two or more seasons without the host
plant or host contact - economical and important in the control of many
plant pathogens such as nematodes, bacteria and
fungi
Crop Rotation
To minimize sweet potato weevil damage, the rotation of sweet potato with _____ and _____ is recommended.
Squash and Corn
It is advisable to rotate crops of the same family as the rotated crops.
True or False?
False, because they may still serve as host to the pest.
Rotating tomato with _____, _____, and _____, will minimize bacterial wilt population in the soil
Corn, string bean and pechay
These practices can kill pests through
mechanical injury, starvation (via debris destruction)
desiccation and exposure
Soil Cultivation or Tillage
True or False: Plowing under crop debris and weeds after each cropping season will increase initial insect population and pathogen inoculum for the next cropping season.
False
This keeps the soil dry that is in direct contact with the root collar of the plant
Shaping the Topsoil and Earthing up/ Hilling up : Raised beds
This method is very effective in reducing incidence of Sclerotium, Rhizoctonia, Pythium, and Phytophtora that causes damping-off of seedlings, basal stem rot and wilts
Raised beds or plots
A special case of multiple cropping
Trap Cropping
involves the planting of an attractive small early crop to protect the main crop.
Trap Cropping
Involves the use of a second crop in the vicinity of the principal or main crop. It divers a pest, which would otherwise attack the principal crop.
Trap cropping
True or False: The trap crop is usually destroyed after the insects reproduce and should be the same family group of the main crop.
False
A type of Trap Cropping where the trap crop surrounds the main crop from all sides.
Perimeter Trap Cropping
A type of trap cropping where planting marigold (trap crop) in a row at the center of rows of tomato (main crop) to attract thrips early and destroyed
Row Trap Cropping
A type of trap cropping which involves planting trap crops in a strip along one common border between two or more crops
Strip Trap Cropping
A type of trap cropping where the trap crop is planted in higher densities to capture more eggs of the insect pest and destroyed ; trap crop planted earlier than the main crop
Dead-end Trap Cropping
Asparagus & marigold, Tagetes erecta L, are _______ to plant pathogens because they release substances in the soil that are toxic
Antagonistic - These plants are Antagonistic Plants
_________ occurs when chemicals released from the plants reduce the population of a pest organism
Antagonism - Allelopathy
Crotolaria incana or C. mucronata or Tagetes erecta affects which pest?
Meloidogyne hapla