Advances with integrated pest management as a component of sustainable agriculture: The case of the australian cotton industry

Integrated Pest Management

Volumn 2, Issue , 2009, Pages 507-524

  Fitt, Gary ^a   Wilson, Lewis ^b   Kelly, David ^c   Mensah, Robert ^b  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b Australian Cotton Research Institute   (Australia)

^c Cotton Seed Distributors ^*  (Australia)

Author keywords

Cotton; Helicoverpa; Integrated Pest Management; IPM; Sustainability

Indexed keywords

EID: 84893771827     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-8990-9_17     Document Type: Chapter

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