Environmental Protection and Quarantine

p Protecting Food Resources : Pest Management

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A pest is an organism , whether be it a plant , animal , fungus or microbe that causes damage to agriculture or other things that are of value Pests can be harmful to humans especially when it comes to vegetation It can destroy crops and farm lands . Kinds of pest control have been formulated by farmers and scientists . It can be natural or synthetic

Pest control helps the environment maintain its sustainability . In ecology , sustainability describes how biological systems remain diverse

br and productive over time . This relates to the sustainability in agriculture . The use of ecological principles to farming and improving agricultural methods helps to make a sustainable relationship between organisms and the environment in the long run

Natural methods of controlling pests have been around for more than a million years . Even before human existed and knew how to farm , nature had its own way of keeping the balance of nature . In agriculture natural pest control is the means of controlling pests using animals . It can be in the form of predation , parasitism , herbivory or other mechanisms . Usually , natural enemies of the pests are used to destroy insects that harm vegetation

Today , with the help of human intervention , natural methods of pest control are used . Agricultural experts and farmers try to copy the natural mechanisms of nature in controlling pests . As mentioned a while ago , pests have natural predators that reduce their population . With human intervention , these predators can be placed in...