Uttarakhand - Department of Land Resources

If reduces the application of pesticides.
Results are assured.
IPDM can be practiced from seed to seed, which includes pre- sowings to post
harvesting of the crop. The first step involved in IPDM planning is to sensitize the
facilitators i.e. extension staff and the farmers in the watershed areas. This can be
done by organizing Farmers Field demonstration. Farmers’ Field demonstration has
proved as the best way to demonstrate IPM. It is a non-formal type of educational
learning situation wherein the participants will be able to acquire the skills and
knowledge of integrated pest management through the integrated adoption of
production technology in raising a healthy crop. At the end of the training farmers
will:–
1. Become experts in their own field for arriving at right decision for pest
management.
2. Be able to conserve the defenders (natural enemies) in their field.
3. Observe the crop regularly.
4. Be able to grow healthy crop.
HORTICULTURE
Rainfed Horticulture has assumed greater attention now days due to better economic
returns. Fruit trees provide better substitute and offer alternative opportunities in
areas where cropping may not be possible due to non availability of irrigation.
Selection of suitable hardy variety resistant to drought, adverse weather condition,
diseases and pest and use of local or other hardy root stock for raising fruit trees is
of utmost importance for the success of conservation horticulture. The fruit crop
selected should be such that their maximum growth takes place during the period of
maximum water availability in the soil and low- pressures deficit in the atmosphere.
The most part of the reproductive cycle i.e., period from flowering to fruiting should
also fall during this period and fruit ripening should be completed before the onset of
dry summers. It is essential that nurseries should be stocked with high yielding good
varieties of fruit plants at the local level.