Pest Management in Store Grains

Contents: Foreword. Preface. I. General: Overall picture national scenario: 1. Scenario of pest management in grains in storage/L. Nadarajan. II. Grain damage and loss: 2. Loss of grains due to Sitophilus oryzae L. in different pop Sorghum varieties in comparison with grain sorghum/Kavitha Jadhav and Shekarappa. III. Grain storage structures and organizations: 3. An insight into traditional grain storage in India/P. Narayanasamy. 4. Eco-friendly post-harvest-technologies for management of stored grain insects at farm, home and warehouse -- a step towards clean grain (Insect Free) Revolution/S. Mohan. 5. Preservation problems in warehouses and their management/I.C. Chadda. 6. Food Corporation of India: A role model organization in pest-free food grain storage/A.S. Arunachalam. 7. Significance of grading and preservation of commodities in storage/V. Kannan. IV. Insects identification and biology: 8. Biology and infestation behaviour of lesser grain borer, Rhizopertha dominica Fab. (Coleoptera: Bostrychidae) a new storage pest on finger millet, Eleusine coracana (L.) Gaertn/Gururaj Ainapur, P.S. Jagadish, K.S. Jagadish and S. Subramaniyan. V. Insect pest management in storage: 9. The need and scope for pest-free grains in storage/A. Dakshinamurthy. VI. Pest management -- Fumigation: 10. Alternative fumigants for stored grain protection in India/S. Rajendran. VII. Pest management -- Plant products: 11. Role of plant products and oils in the management of pulse beetle, Callosobruchus chinensis Linn./L. Ramazeame and D. Adiroubane. 12. Effect of Piper nigrum L. seed powder and its dust formulations on pulse beetle, Callosobruchus maculatus (F.) (Coleoptera: Bruchidae)/K. Govindan, S. Jeyarajan Nelson and P.M.M. David. 13. Evaluation of repellent property of certain native botanical powders against rice weevil, Sitophilus oryzae L. (Curculionidae: Coleoptera) on Sorghum/V. Sathyaseelan, A.M. Amala Hyacinth and T. Selvamuthukumaran. 14. Management of pulse beetle, Callosobruchus chinensis L. in chickpea through botanicals/B.S. Nandihalli. 5. Evaluation of botanical formulations in the management of psocids in paddy and rice storage/M. Loganathan, K. Singaravadivel and A. Dakshinamurthy. 16. Effect of some indigenous pesticidal plants against drug store beetle, Stegobium paniceum Linn. (Anobiidae: Coleoptera) on coriander, Coriandrum sativum Linn./R. Kannan and V. Sathyaseelan. 17. Effect of leaf dusts of certain plant species against pulse beetle, Callosobruchus chinensis Linn. in black gram/M. Mahendran, B. Ravivarman and C. Kathirvelu. 18. Effect of milkweed plant, Calotropis gigantea R. Br. powders against rice weevil, (Sitophilus oryzae L.) on paddy/T. Rani and S. Pushpalatha. 19. Evaluation of certain botanicals as grain protectants against rice weevil, Sitophilus Oryzae L./M. Jayakumar and S. John William. 20. Effect of some traditional oils as ovipositional deterrents against pulse beetel, Callosobruchus maculatus (Fab.) (Bruchidae: Coleoptera) on green gram/V. Sathyaseelan and V. Baskaran, K. Natarajan and S. Mohan. 21. Effect of Acorus calamus (L.) rhizome powder and its dust formulations on pulse beetle, Callosobruchus maculatus (F.) (Coleoptera: Bruchidae)/K. Govindan, S. Jeyarajan Nelson and P.M.M. David. VIII. Pest management -- insecticides: 22. Screening of different insecticides as jute fabric treatment to protect wheat grains against lesser grain borer, Rhizopertha dominica (Fab.) (Coleoptera: Bostrichidae)/R.C. Jhala and R.H. Kher. 23. Toxicity of sulfuryl fluoride to stored grain insects/V. Sriranjini, Y. Rajashekhar and S. Rajendran. IX. Pest management - host plant resistance: 24. Screening of different wheat varieties for susceptibility to lesser grain borer, Rhizopertha Dominica (Fab.) (Coleoptera: Bostrichidae) under storage conditions/R.H. Kher and R.C. Jhala. X. Pest management-- eco-friendly tactics: 25. Eco-friendly approaches for the management of rice weevil, Sitophilus oryzae (L.) in pop sorghum stored in jute bag/Kavita Jadhav and Shekharappa. 26. Indigenous stored grain pest management practices in Kanyakumari district, Southern Peninsular India/S. Kiruba, S. Jeeva, S. Isreal Stalin and S. Sam Manohar Das. 27. Effect of temperature and relative humidity on efficacy of Diatomaceous Earth (DE) against pulse beetle, Callosobruchus chinensis (L.)/Poornima Matti and J.S. Awaknavar. 28. Effect of pre-harvest sanitation spray on seed yield, quality and post - harvest seed storability in green gram (Vigna radiata (L.) Wilczek)/R.H. Patil, M.N. Merwade and J. Divyashri. 29. Effect of various seed coatings with certain soil types against Callosobruchus chinensis Linn. in redgram/N. Muthukumaran and P. Thangavel. XI. Non-insect pest management: 30. Tactics in rodent management/Y. Hariprasad, R. Kannan and R. Ayyaswamy. XII. Quarantine aspects of grain importation: 31. Store grain insect pests of quarantine significance for India/Murali, R. Gyaneshwer Banchhor, D.K. Murthy and N. Sathyanarayana. Subject index.

"Considering appropriateness of eco-friendly tactics in pest control in grains in storage, a national convention was held for the first time at The Department of Entomology, Faculty of Agriculture, Annamalai University, Annamalainagar, Tamil Nadu during March 26-27, 2007. The meet was well attended by elite entomologists, fumigation experts and grain storage organizations.

The papers presented there in received good amount of discussion and 31 of them were chosen for bringing out as a publication.

Various chapters brought under the purview of this book include: Grain storage and loss, storage structures and organizations, pest and disease problems, use of plant products, host plant resistance and other eco-friendly components, management of non-pests like rodents and quarantine aspects of grain importation.

Good number of papers throws more light on utility of products of various kinds of plant species and certain eco-friendly tactics too is under focus. Restricted involvement of chemical insecticides in grain protection is also projected.

The over all contents of the book would emphasize eco-friendly pest control tactics in grain storage. Best storage practices have also been projected.

The contents of the book would auger well for promoting eco-friendly techniques of grains in storage."