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Year-round warm temperatures and relatively high humidity and abundant food make the protected environment of greenhouses highly favorable to pests and diseases. While much is known about disease epidemiology and insect behavior, scant attention, however, has been paid to the manipulation of greenhouse environments expressly to avoid disease epidemics and insect infestations, which together can easily account for 30 % crop losses. This makes the control of pests and diseases in protected crops even more challenging, with many important problems being unresolved and new ones arising as the industry undergoes more changes in production systems. The topics discussed in this chapter include location and orientation of greenhouse, structures and equipment, factors stimulating sustainable crop protection, managing crop pests and diseases, managing the crop environment, cultural techniques, and factors favorable to pest and disease development.

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Reddy, P.P. (2016). Crop Protection. In: Sustainable Crop Protection under Protected Cultivation. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-287-952-3_3

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