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Integrated Pest Management

          Integrated Pest Management is a practice that combines biological and cultural methods to control pest populations and reduce pest populations to no damaging levels. It is applicable to all pests especially when properly planned and implemented.

       Organism is considered a pest when it significantly educes the yield of the rice plant. Pests feed on, attack, and destroy the plant.

Major Pests of Rice Plant

    Insect                                          Sheath blight                                

    Black bugs                                  Blast

    Brown plant hoppers                  Bacterial blight

    Green leafhoppers                     Weeds

    Stem borers

         Natural Enemies of Pests are also known as beneficial organisms or friends of the rice plant? They help control pests insect pests.

       Natural Enemies Help in Pest Management - natural enemies feed on pest thus they help produce pest population. However, in cases of pest outbreak, relying on natural enemies alone is not enough.