· Web viewCitation: Chapter 3. Lim Guan Soon. 1996. Integrated pest management in developing countries. Pages 61-75. In: GJ Persley. 1996. Biotechnology and Integrated Pest Management.

Citation: Chapter 3. Lim Guan Soon. 1996. Integrated pest management in developing countries. Pages 61-75. In: GJ Persley. 1996. Biotechnology and Integrated Pest Management. Biotechnology in Agriculture No. 15, CAB International, Wallingford, Oxon UK OX10 8DE, 475 pages.

Keywords: pest control practices with pesticides, problems arising from pesticide overuse, pesticides causing pest outbreaks, number of insecticides to which diamondback moth has developed resistance in some South-East Asian countries, pesticide resistance development, rise in production costs, environmental impact and hazards to non-target organisms, the need for IPM, IPM examples and experiences, insect pests of oil-palm and cocoa, diamondback moth on vegetables in the highlands of Asia, rhinoceros beetle on coconut in Asia and the Pacific, cassava mealybug in Africa, mangoes in Pakistan, cotton in the Cañete valley of Peru, bananas in Costa Rica, perception and raising awareness of IPM, policy issues, farmer and extension worker involvement in IPM research, priority of biological control, integration of people, human resource development, financial support, role of biotechnology in IPM