2000 Volume 43 Issue 5 Pages 431-441
Recently, environmental problems due to human activities are paid considerable attention, and we need to advance environmental preservation in the world. It is also necessary to reexamine the traditional practices of agriculture, and develop an agriculture, in which the use of pesticide and chemical fertilizer are repressed as much as possible. In Japan, agriculture in which reduction of environmental loading is considered is called as"Environment-reserving agriculture" or"Sustainable agriculture", and such agriculture is now recommended by the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries etc. For Sustainable agriculture, there are various techniques such as soil improvement, fertilization, plant disease and pest control, cropping system, recycling. This report outlines recent trend of the techniques for biological control, physical control, sex pheromone, integrated control in pest control since 1998.
