Pest and Weed Control of Rice: A Colorful Ecological Atlas

Author: Xia Shengguang, Tang Qiyi (editors)
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Publish Date: 2006-01-01
Features: This book is based on the practical needs of rice production, summarizing the recent experience in the prevention and control of rice diseases, pests, and weeds. It draws on the essence of various sources, striving for advancement, practicality, and technical integration and simplification. The content includes the diagnosis and control of infectious and non-infectious diseases of rice, as well as rice pests and rice field weeds. In the appendix, several major disease diagnosis methods and synonyms of pesticides are arranged for easy reference by readers. The book provides diagnostic and control techniques for over 50 major rice diseases and pests and over 20 main rice field weeds, along with approximately 200 high-quality ecological color images that realistically reproduce the different morphological characteristics and damage symptoms of common rice diseases, pests, and weeds. The text is concise and easy to understand. It is suitable for grassroots agricultural technology extension departments, pesticide manufacturers, agricultural input suppliers, crop health clinics, and rice farmers. It can also serve as a reference book for university students in the identification of diseases, pests, and weeds, or as a training textbook for grassroots organic rice production.