Agricultural Technique Series - Northern Fruit Tree Pest and Disease Control Manual

Author: Wang Qi, Du Xiangge, Editor-in-Chief
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Publish Date: 2000-09-01
Features:
Authoritative Release — Prefaced by the Minister of Agriculture, edited by the Deputy Minister, with a editorial board composed of leaders from agricultural administrative and extension departments, scholars, and nearly 100 senior experts contributing.
Comprehensive Coverage — Includes crop planting, fruit trees and vegetables, flowers, edible fungi, plant protection, fertilizers, agricultural machinery, animal husbandry, feed, and more, comprising 69 books.
Targeted Positioning — Serves 1.2 million agricultural technicians and tens of millions of science demonstration and professional households, addressing what technicians want to know and writing in a way that professional households can understand.
This book introduces the pest and disease control techniques for major northern fruit trees, including apples, pears, peaches, grapes, as well as cherries, plums, apricots, jujubes, chestnuts, walnuts, and persimmons. It details the symptoms, pathogens, occurrence patterns, and control methods for each disease, as well as the morphological characteristics, occurrence patterns, and control methods for each pest.
The book proposes that pest and disease control should be based on agricultural practices, centered around biological control, and supplemented with chemical control, increasing the proportion of agricultural and biological control to achieve true integrated pest management. This perspective is consistently applied throughout the book.