What role can integrated nutrient and pest management play in enhancing the productivity and resilience of field and horticultural crops under climate change scenarios?
Integrated nutrient and pest management enhances crop productivity and resilience by reducing chemical dependency, improving soil health, conserving biodiversity, and strengthening adaptive capacity of field and horticultural crops under climate change conditions.
Chemical pesticides accumulate and incorporate in the soil, that persist in the environment ,after evaporation it never fade away, it returns to earth surface and the cycle repeats. To prevent this scenario and escape to the pesticides, researcher try to solve the problem and get their answer and it is IPM(integrated pest management) which also includes nutrients management. It is holistic approach in which , various processes like, cultural, physical, biology and chemical in judicious manner has been practiced. It tend to reduced the dependency on Chemical pesticides and also tend to reduce the killing the non targeted insects.
Researcher not try to kill the insect ,rather than,they try to manage insects as a pests.
In the field of soil fertility, the nutriment can enhance the resistance and the contribution of crops to the soil composition of minerals according to the fertility restitution law.
The pest management may contribute positevely to the biodiversity and knowledge to pest condition in order to participate into climate change research.
By the way, it will be good to integrate agricultural systems and practices of indegenous people.