Discuss ten cultural methods of crop pest control

  • Timely planting
  • Timely harvesting
  • Proper tillage
  • Close season
  • Trap cropping
  • Crop rotation
  • Planting resistant crop varieties
  • Field hygiene
  • Alteration of environmental conditions
  • Crop nutrition
  • Destruction of alternative host
  • Use of clean planting materials
  • Proper spacing
  • Use of organic manure
  • Irrigation
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