Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:
1. Understand the importance of crop pests and weeds on agricultural crops;
2. Know the reasons relating to crop pests and weed problems on agricultural crops;
3. Know the basic biology and ecology of crop pests and weeds in agriculture;
4. Inter-relate the biological information of crop pests and weeds;
5. Introduce control measures for crop pests and weeds on agricultural crops.
The distribution, significance and characteristics of crop pests and weeds: anatomy, morphology and physiology of crop pests and weeds; Effects of crop pests and weeds through ecosystem simplification (diversity abundance, and inter-actions); Growth curves, spatial distribution and sampling of crop pests and weeds; Preservation methods of crop pests and weeds; Application of biological and ecological information for crop pests, and weed management; Principles of crop pest and weed control: biological, cultural, chemical and Quarantine; Taxonomic studies of crop pests and weeds in PNG.
Henty, E. E., Pritchard, G. H. Papua New Guinea weeds and their control, Botany Bulletin No.7 Department of Forestry Division of Botany, Lae, 1975.
Lavabre, E. M. Weed control. The tropical agriculturalist, CTA/Macmillan, London, UK, 1991.
Gullan, P. J., Cranston, P. S. An outline of entomology, Chapman and Hall, London, UK, 1994.
Zimdahl, R. L., Fundamentals of weed science, Academic Press, New York, USA, 1993.
Chapman, R. F. The insect: structure & functions, Hodder & Stoughton, London, UK, 1969.
Continuous assessment 40%
Written examination 60%
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