Vol. 13, Issue 2 (2024)

Integrated Pest Management is an eco-friendly strategy that focuses on long term prevention of pests or their damage through the combination of various techniques. The present study, which investigated on Integrated Pest Management Practices Followed among cotton Growers was carried out in Parbhani District of Maharashtra state. In the present study, the exploratory design of social research was studied by using random sampling; all 120 respondents from 10 villages were chosen. The information was gathered by conducting personal interviews with the respondents by using a pre-planned interview schedule. The results revealed that Cotton Growers had a medium adoption of recommended cultural, mechanical, physical, biological and chemical IPM approaches. Therefore, by carrying out result and method demonstrations like showing how to use pheromone traps, trichocards, sticky traps etc on a broad scale.