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Insects have been associated with mankind since centuries together causing large scale destruction to food through eating, disease problem, contamination of food through their excreta, skin castings, etc. . The problem of food destruction by insect-pests is more so under storage facilities, because under such conditions insects get ample food due to bulk storage, do not have to move for search of food, and are protected from itches of climatic instabilities. The presence of insects in storage reduces both quality and marketing value of grain and in some countries like Britain, the grain is being discarded even at minimal presence of insect-pests .Keeping in the damage caused to stored grains by insect-pests, different control measures have been employed over the years for same purpose. Involvement of sun drying before transferring to a granary for storage, picking, slapping and crushing, use of charcoal as a desiccant, etc., are some of the measures used since long. Besides these measures, early attempts of storage grain pests relied on the use of wood ash, fumigants (Levinson and Levinson 1989), utilization of sieving or flotation to remove infested grains employed by Indian and C

Author

Rakesh Kumar Gupta; Mushtaq Ahmad Guroo; Mudasir Gani; Kamlesh Bali; Ramandeep Kour

Publisher

Springer Nature Singapore : Imprint : Springer

Published

2022

Language

EN

ISBN

9789811641336

Subjects

Science, Technology, Agriculture