Importance Of Pests And Diseases To Agriculture

• The Coffee Diseases and Pests
  For more information about coffee diseases and pests, visit the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United States or view the list of coffee diseases at Wikipedia. Provides information on coffee leaf rust, coffee berry disease, bacterial blight, ...
  http://www.coffeeresearch.org/agriculture/diseases.htm

• Diseases and Pests
  Diseases, Pests, and Nonnutrient Disorders of Sugarcane presents 60 color images illustrating symptoms of many leaf, stalk, and root disorders and general plant abnormalities caused by pests and diseases. These symptoms are often confused with those ...
  http://www.apsnet.org/online/slideset/sugrcane/

• The Sugar Beet Diseases
  To maximise the profitability of a sugar beet crop, it is important that the sugar beet grower can identify attacks by pests and diseases at an early stage so that he can treat them effectively, seek advice and information about them or learn how to ...
  http://www.hilleshog.com/uk/diseases.asp

• Parasitic Diseases of Tomato
  Parasitic diseases reduce tomato quality and yield in Minnesota every year. Because the importance of tomato diseases cannot be predicted from one year to the next, you must take certain precautions every year to ensure maximum fruit production with ...
  http://www.extension.umn.edu/distribution/horticulture/DG1155.html

• Agriculture Network Information
  The Agriculture Network Information Center AgNIC is a voluntary alliance of the National Agricultural Library NAL, landgrant universities and other agricultural organizations, in cooperation with citizen groups and government agencies, the purpose of ...
  http://www.libraries.psu.edu/turfgrass/

• Compendium of Beet Diseases
  Compendium of Beet Diseases and Pests, Second Edition is a complete revision of the first edition and is updated and expanded to provide current and relevant beet Beta vulgaris L. production problems in one comprehensive volume. This revision was aut ...
  http://shopapspress.stores.yahoo.net/coofbediandp1.html

• Root Rot Diseases of Cassava
  Cassava is cultivated in almost all the districts of Ghana and it is the number one staple food crop for majority of Ghanaians. Cassava is also fast becoming an important crop for industries because of its high starch content. Diseases and pests caus ...
  http://www.isppweb.org/foodsecurity_cassavaghana.asp

• Insect and Mite Pests
  Biological control is the conscious use of living beneficial organisms, called natural enemies, to control pests. Biological control should be an important part of any integrated pest management program, an approach which combines a variety of pest c ...
  http://www.ianrpubs.unl.edu/epublic/pages/publicationD.jsp?publicationId=52...

• Plant Diseases
  The overall goal of National Program 303 – Plant Diseases – is to develop and improve ways to reduce crop losses caused by plant diseases. These diseases reduce yields, lower product quality or shelflife, decrease aesthetic or nutritional value, and ...
  http://www.ars.usda.gov/research/programs/programs.htm?np_code=303&docid=15...

• Diseases of Cruciferous Crops
  Details on brassica diseases from the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture. Disease management is important for producing acceptable yield and quality of cruciferous crops such as cabbage, cauliflower, canola, rutabaga, grown for the fresh market, the pro ...
  http://www.omafra.gov.on.ca/english/crops/facts/85-043.htm