Crop Protection: Importance and Methods

Crop protection involves practices and products used to safeguard crops from pests, diseases, and weeds to ensure healthy growth and yield.

Crop Protection FAQ

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What is crop protection management?

Here we will be discussing the crop protection management. What is Crop Protection? Crop protection is the general method or the practice of protecting the crop yields from different agents including pests, weeds, plant diseases, and other organisms that cause damage to the agricultural crops.

What is crop protection?

Discover more about Crop Protection, its methods and other related topics only @ BYJU’S Biology Crop Protection is a general practice of managing, improving and protecting crops from pests and plant diseases using biocontrol agents including herbicides, insecticides and fungicides.

What are biological control methods for crop protection?

Biological control methods for crop protection include various products derived from living organisms. They are an excellent complement to chemicals and provide better protection against pests, diseases, and weeds. Biological plant protection products can be chemically synthesized but resemble natural products in their formulation.

Why are crop protection products important in Australia?

In Australia, crop protection products help agricultural industries produce safe, high-quality, affordable and abundant food and fibre that is competitive on world markets. They increase Australian crop yields by about 40 per cent as well as increasing the value of our food production by $13 billion each year.

Why do we need crop protection products?

An adequate and reliable food supply cannot be guaranteed without the use of crop protection products. In Australia, crop protection products help agricultural industries produce safe, high-quality, affordable and abundant food and fibre that is competitive on world markets.

What is a crop protection product?

Thousands of pest species including weeds, nematodes (microscopic worms) and plant-eating insects, as well as viruses, fungi, mites and mice threaten the successful production of food crops. Crop protection products, also known as pesticides, are used in both conventional, organic and genetically modified farming to successfully grow crops.

Why is crop protection chemistry important?

Crop protection chemistry remains vital to supporting modern food production. Almost three quarters of all food produced in Australia is directly attributed to the use of crop protection products. That means more than $20 billion of Australian crop production is enabled by pesticides.