INTEGRATED PLANT DISEASE

MANAGEMENT
 PEST?

• An injurious plant or animal, especially one

harmful to humans.
• A deadly epidemic disease; a pestilence.
INTRODUCTION OF IPDM
• Plant Pathologists embraced integrated disease
management by applying fundamental information on loss
potential and pathogen biology, ecology and epidemology
and applying the basic concept of plant disease
management.
why IPDM?
Exclusive use of fungicides , pesticides,nematicides, viricides resulted in :
• New pathotype development
• Resistance
• Residues
• Environmental pollution
This lead to development of integrated plant disease management
• It emphasize sustainable agriculture, growing public concern regarding pesticides and food safety.
• IPM does not seek to eliminate the use of pesticides, but aims to utilize the least disruptive options
and to reduce the use of pesticides for pest control