Study has shown that farmers that have qualified pest
controllers in their staff list perform better than others. They achieve more
in terms of harvest with minimal loss. Most farmers don’t consider hiring pest controllers or having them as part of their business plan as
necessary rather they prefer running to
them anytime there is problem just for immediate solution. Some even prefer to
be the pest controllers themselves.
Every pest controller starts with a master plan prepared well ahead
of planting season. Then he or she records any changes, such as switching
varieties or herbicides, as well as problems that arise and treatments applied
during the growing season. He makes regular visits to the farm, observes and
records what is happening there even if everything is okay. This also helps
for analysis. He also takes pictures for documentation purpose Documenting
failures might be more important than recording successes, and pictures can do
both.
Furthermore,
some pest’ controllers build pest management database. Pest management records
must cover multiple years. Sometimes when a problem that occurred about four or
five years back reoccurs again he needs
to be able to check where it occurred, how he treated it and how the treatment
worked..Basically ,it is good for a qualified pest controller to put
technology to work. The traditional pocket notebook is still useful, as long as
he pull it out and make an entry every time he visits a field and then transfer
that information to his master pest management plan but what happens when the
note book gets missing?
The past decade has unleashed an array
of technological innovations, starting with smart phones that can make a pest
controller more efficient and effective. He can take notes and snap a picture,
and use the phone’s GPS feature to record the section of the farm that are
being threatened .Also, a good pest controller takes the weather into
consideration. As the season takes shape, he might want to look back in his
records to the last wet or dry season, to anticipate problems. Many pests are
driven by climatic conditions.
Finally, After
harvest, he sits down with the entire farm management team and analyze yield
maps. Yield maps are the scorecard of the growing season. When he spots a
low-yielding area, he pulls up his pest
management records and figure out the cause for a subsequent better performance
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