Integrated Management of Pestes and Diseases

Ever since mankind began farming to provide food, they have manipulated ecosystems to turn organisms that were previously controlled by natural factors into pests. Pests include various species of insects, mites, mollusks, vertebrates and pathogens such as fungi, bacteria, nematodes and viruses that have always demanded a share of agricultural products and humans from the distant past in various ways, including using compounds. Minerals and plants are available to fight pests in order to protect their crops from their bites.