Agricultural Reviews
  • Year: 2006
  • Volume: 27
  • Issue: 2

Insect pest problem in medicinal plants - A review

  • Author:
  • J.S. Verma
  • Total Page Count: 7
  • Page Number: 130 to 136

Department of Entomology, Dr. Y.S. Parmar University of Horticulture and Forestry, Nauni-Solan (H.P.)-173 230, India.

Abstract

Medicinal plants now a days are being cultivated in the fields to meet the increasing demand for pharmaceutical industries. Like any other plants, medicinal plants too have to bear the devastating attacks of injurious insect pests. Information in this review has, therefore, been presented on survey, incidence and population levels, nature and extent of damage of different insect pests on different medicinal plants.