Stored Grain Pests

Pests of Stored Grains & Their Management

The book covers updated information written in simple, lucid language, easily understandable by readers and summarizes the knowledge of insects and other pests of stored grains and grain products covering global scenario. Every chapter covers wider aspects of related work, storage requirement to prevent the losses of food grains at post harvest handling and at other levels too, different types of storage techniques and prevalent rural and improved storage structures and receptacles, storage pests (insects, mites, birds, rodents, microorganisms etc.), fumigants and their use, safety measures against poisoning, management of stored grain pests etc. The revised edition gives the readers the vast knowledge about the progress made in different aspects of storage entomology. The book will serve as the valuable source of information on the storage entomology and would be of great importance for its readers. The book has good number of MCQ's at the end of the book to help students along with colour images of insects and pests to easily identify them.

Pests of Stored Grain and Grain Products

Grain and its conservation; Rodent and bird pests of stored grain; The insect pests of stored grain; Prevention and control of insect infestation in farm-stored grain; Control of insects in grain stored in elevators and warehouses; Detection of insect infestation; The insect problem in flour mills; Practical control methods in the mill and flour warehouse; Fumigants and fumigation; The common fumigants; Flour mill and warehouse fumigation; Fumigation in atmospheric vaults and vacumm chambers; Heat sterilization; Protecting stored seed from insect attack; Insect control in the bakery.

Pests of Stored Grain and Grain Products