Gardening Pesticide Handbook

Author: Cheng Boying
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Publish Date: 2003-03-01
Features: This manual compiles 339 types of pesticides suitable for use on vegetables (including economically cultivated crops grown in protected environments), such as insecticides, miticides, molluscicides, rodenticides, fungicides, nematicides, herbicides, and plant growth regulators. It provides detailed introductions to the alternative names, characteristics, main formulations (including mixtures), usage methods, and precautions for each pesticide, as well as technical knowledge and related information on pesticide application. The manual also includes color photographs of symptoms for some vegetable diseases and insect pests, and briefly describes the pesticides available for controlling 220 types of vegetable pests, 345 types (categories) of vegetable diseases, and 41 herbicide varieties suitable for use in vegetable fields. The entire book strives to be comprehensive, up-to-date, technically advanced and practical, with easy-to-understand text and typical, accurate illustrations, reflecting the current level of pesticide use and the control of diseases, insects, weeds, and rodents in vegetable cultivation in China. It is a valuable reference for vegetable farmers, pesticide distributors, rural technicians and cadres, as well as faculty and students in agricultural institutions.
China is vast with diverse ecological conditions. When using pesticides according to this manual, please adhere to the principle of "trial before widespread application," i.e., conduct small-scale tests first, and only after confirming no issues, proceed with large-scale promotion and application.