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Agriculture · Q13

Agricultural Entomology

Graduate and Post Graduate · Agriculture · question 13

Q13

The pest management should be done at

A.
Economic injury level
B.
Economic threshold level
Answer
C.
Economic equilibrium level
D.
None of the above

Answer: Option B

Solution

Answer: Option B
Solution:
Pest management should be done at the Economic threshold level.
An economic threshold is the insect's population level or extent of crop damage at which the value of the crop destroyed exceeds the cost of controlling the pest.
The pest density at which management action should be taken to prevent an increasing pest population from reaching the economic injury level. EILs are usually expressed as a pest density and are developed from yield-loss relationships.