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Pest ManageMent

Preventive Methologies to

curb Non-Human visitor

When ‘pest control’ has evolved and advanced to ‘integrated pest

management’, why do curative practices to tackle infestations
still form the mainstay of pest management? How can preventive
measures prove superior to curative ones? How exactly can

facilities plug gaps and bar entry to select, unwanted, non-human
visitors?

With 20+ years of experience in professional IPM and certified

Level 1 & 2 on IPM in Food Plants from AIB Inc (USA), Viren R
Merchant, Director, PCAMB India has all the answers.

IPM = Prevention Globally in the developed therefore should not be
We have over the decades world, pest prevention is the crux perceived as an act of offloading
of a pest management services
responsibility to the property
heard that ‘Prevention is better program for any structure. The owner by the service vendor,
than Cure’. From health to development and maintenance but rather as genuine expertise
wealth management, property management policies in mature in honestly conveying the
maintenance to software system developed countries include necessities of protecting one’s
maintenance, prevention assumes Integrated Pest Management and property from the impact of
critical significance. However, preventive pest management as pests!
despite IPM services having part of their guidelines.
‘pest prevention’ as their main Many pests that find their
postulate, there is a significant way into one’s business or Preventing access
gap in the understanding and home can spread disease or The pests we try to prevent
implementation of the same in cause damage to the structure/ predate human existence. Our
the Indian property management interiors, inflicting a monetary human egos result in hypothetical
space today. consequence. Pest prevention expectations of a ‘zero pest

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