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Cultural Control

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It involves non chemical strategies which are useful for the crop than the pest. Measures are adopted keeping in mind the long and short term benefits of the control.

The various methods can be:

Crop Rotation
Sanitation
Exclusion [pests from field]
Increasing Row Spacing
Bed Shaping
Plantation of pest resistant crops proves to be beneficial
Putting up of Physical Barriers for Pest Prevention

There are various types of Cultural Control Decisions like,

Preventive- Used before crop plantation.
Curative- Done during the growing season by controlling the pests.

Measures are adopted keeping in mind the long and short term benefits of the control.

Examples of Preventive Cultural Control includes:

Selecting a disease resistance crop type.
Improving field drainage for prevention of rotten root disease.
Crop rotations so as to enable the host pest to starve.
Installation of barrier to exclude mice and voles.
Using wider or narrower spacings for plantations.

Examples of Curative measures are:

Early cutting of Alfalfa to avoid excessive damage.
Flaming small weed seedlings before crop emergence.