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Improvement in Food Resources — Science STD 9 — Question

Gujarat BoardEnglish MediumSTD 9ScienceImprovement in Food Resources3 Marks
Question
What are crop pests? Suggest preventive measures to control pests.
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Answer

Crop's pest is any destructive organism which causes great economic loss by destroying crop plants or products obtained from them.
These can be controlled by the use of pesticides or biocides which includes insecticides, weedicides and fungicides. These chemicals are sprayed on crop plants or used for treating seeds and soil.

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