Integrated pest management can be a simple or complicated regime. Originally the main focus of integrated pest management programs were agricultural pests.[3]​ By extension, integrated pest management programs also apply to diseases, weeds and other pests that interfere with the management of agriculture, gardening, architectural structures, wild territories, etc.

An integrated pest management program is based on the following six components:.

Integrated pest management can be applied to all types of agriculture and even gardening. It is the ideal treatment for organic crops and is based on knowledge, experience, observation and integration of multiple techniques and does not use synthetic chemical options. In large-scale agriculture, integrated pest management can reduce human exposure to potentially toxic chemicals and may lower costs.

Insects, pathogenic weeds and other pests are a fact of agricultural life. They thrive if there is a concentrated, reliable source of food. Unfortunately, measures normally used to increase crop productivity (e.g. monoculture of high-yielding varieties, multiple cropping by reducing or eliminating fallow soils, use of fertilizers, etc.) create an even more favorable environment for pests. Therefore, in any effective agricultural system, intelligent management of pest problems is required. Where pesticides have been used indiscriminately, pest species have become resistant and difficult or impossible to control. In some cases, resistance has been created in the main disease vectors (for example malaria mosquitoes) or new agricultural pests have emerged. For example, all mites were encouraged by pesticides, because they were not abundant before their use. Based on this experience, crop protection specialists have developed integrated pest management as a more diversified and long-lasting method.

Integrated pest management can be a simple or complicated regime. Originally the main focus of integrated pest management programs were agricultural pests.[3]​ By extension, integrated pest management programs also apply to diseases, weeds and other pests that interfere with the management of agriculture, gardening, architectural structures, wild territories, etc.

An integrated pest management program is based on the following six components:.

Integrated pest management can be applied to all types of agriculture and even gardening. It is the ideal treatment for organic crops and is based on knowledge, experience, observation and integration of multiple techniques and does not use synthetic chemical options. In large-scale agriculture, integrated pest management can reduce human exposure to potentially toxic chemicals and may lower costs.

Insects, pathogenic weeds and other pests are a fact of agricultural life. They thrive if there is a concentrated, reliable source of food. Unfortunately, measures normally used to increase crop productivity (e.g. monoculture of high-yielding varieties, multiple cropping by reducing or eliminating fallow soils, use of fertilizers, etc.) create an even more favorable environment for pests. Therefore, in any effective agricultural system, intelligent management of pest problems is required. Where pesticides have been used indiscriminately, pest species have become resistant and difficult or impossible to control. In some cases, resistance has been created in the main disease vectors (for example malaria mosquitoes) or new agricultural pests have emerged. For example, all mites were encouraged by pesticides, because they were not abundant before their use. Based on this experience, crop protection specialists have developed integrated pest management as a more diversified and long-lasting method.