LATAMPLAGAS recommends: books for professional pest management
Three essential reads by Ricardo Ferrario and Gonzalo Ferrario on comprehensive pest management, zero pests, and stored-grain insects.
Redacción Latam Plagas · Issue 20
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Comprehensive Pest Management. The Future in Your Hands (Gestión Integral de Plagas. El futuro en tus manos)
By Ricardo Ferrario Format: Hardcover Offers a broad perspective on pest management across the agrifood chain and other sensitive environments. The book traces the evolution of the profession and highlights the need to advance toward systematized programs capable of achieving superior results through the rational use of resources and reduced reliance on chemical control.
Zero Pests. Between Myth and Goal (Plaga Cero. Entre el mito y la meta)
By Ricardo and Gonzalo Ferrario Format: Hardcover Delves specifically into the reality of pest management in the food industry. Management, risk analysis, monitoring, threshold setting, training, and root-cause analysis emerge as essential tools for turning the concept of “zero pests” into concrete, measurable, and technically grounded objectives.
Guardians of the Grain (Guardianes del Grano)
By Ricardo and Gonzalo Ferrario Format: Hardcover Focuses on one of the sector’s most demanding arenas: stored-product pests across the agrifood supply chain. The work integrates field experience, diagnosis, management strategies, and new technological tools applied to protecting stored grains and food products.