The best ways to protect crop damage are by incorporating integrated pest and insect management. Spraying insecticides, pesticides help to minimize the crop damage by controlling the insects and other pests. Pests are the organisms that cause diseases in crop plants. Insects are controlled by spraying insecticides over the crop. Insecticides are the chemicals which kill the insects, their eggs and larvae without affecting the crop. Pest management in natural farming is achieved by using appropriate cropping techniques, biological control, and natural pesticides. Many farmers choose to use chemicals to keep weeds and pests from destroying their crops and to add more nutrients to the soil. There are three different kinds of pesticides; herbicides, insecticides and fungicides. All three of these pesticides are used to kill different kinds of pests that can be found on a farm. Without crop protection, including pesticides, more than half of the world's crops would be lost to insects, diseases and weeds. Pesticides are important. They help farmers grow more food on less land by protecting crops from pests, diseases and weeds as well as raising productivity per hectare. Some of them include crop rotation, planting disease-resistant crops, quarantining affected plants, and deep plowing. Through modern technology, farmers can protect their crops by analyzing temperatures, humidity, and soil conditions. Use disease-free and weed-free seed to prevent diseases and weeds from being introduced. Control alternate host plants of insects and diseases. Minimize moisture conditions optimum for disease development by carefully managing irrigation water applications.
Effective pest control can be achieved by monitoring the crop, only applying pesticides when necessary, and by growing varieties and crops which are resistant to pests. Where possible, biological means are used, encouraging the natural enemies of the pests and introducing suitable predators. Certain essential oils have great insect-repelling properties. Rosemary helps against flies, mosquitoes, fleas and insect larvae. Clove helps against most flying insects. Thyme keeps biting insects like chiggers away, while peppermint is good against ants, fleas, aphids, beetles, squash bugs and spiders. The best ways to protect crop damage are by incorporating integrated pest and insect management. Spraying insecticides, pesticides help to minimize the crop damage by controlling the insects and other pests. Chemical pest control methods are the most widely used approach to pest control. They are also commonly used to control weed infestations and diseases in crops. Pesticides are the name used to describe chemical pest control substances, which usually poison and kill the pest that consumes