Use of disease free and disease resistant varieties of seeds is one of the best preventive practices in organic pest management. Maintenance of diverse plants, companion planting, crop rotation, trap cropping are all effective practices which can keep the population of pests below the threshold limit. Certain cultural practices can prevent or reduce insect crop damage. These include destruction of crop residues, deep plowing, crop rotation, use of fertilizers, strip-cropping, irrigation, and scheduled planting operations. Such practices are useful but cannot be relied upon entirely to eliminate severe infestations. Fungicides are often the best way to limit crop diseases. However resistance can occur when a disease becomes insensitive to a particular fungicide.

Usage of neem and other repellent plants has been used traditionally in India and in Asia and it is still practiced in the rural parts of India.

Crop protection techniques are tillage, crop rotation, organic and synthetic pesticide use, field monitoring, etc. Introducing efficient farming methods requires growers' appropriate plant protection strategy and they must know how to process seeds and prepare fields for planting. When the crops are growing, farmers must water weed and kill crop pests. Once the crops are mature, the farmer will harvest them. The major thrust areas of plant protection are promotion of Integrated Pest management, ensuring availability of safe and quality pesticides for sustaining crop production from the ravages of pests and diseases, streamlining the quarantine measures for accelerating the introduction of new high yielding crop varieties. Use of disease free and disease resistant varieties of seeds is one of the best preventive practices in organic pest management. Maintenance of diverse plants, companion planting, crop rotation, trap cropping are all effective practices which can keep the population of pests below the threshold limit. There are many plants that can be grown to attract natural predators and parasites which will help to keep down pests and diseases. Biological pest control is the most natural method known today. It efficiently reduces the number of pests without leaving any consequences for the rest of the environment.