Ecological Engineering for Pest Management

Abstract

Ecological Engineering (EE), a sustainable pest management tool is a modified tritrophic interaction, which enhance the natural enemies of pests and modify the crop micro environment has been emphasized in recent times due to lesser adversities. This approach relies on use of cultural techniques to bring out habitat manipulation by altering plant composition and enhance biological control by manipulating the third trophic level.  It is emphasized more on ecological knowledge rather than on high technology approaches such as synthetic pesticides and genetically engineered crops. Thus, in the era of IPM this tool can be used for the pest management purposes to obtain highest profit without hampering the environment.