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Keywords: basic definitions, yield, production, pest, injury,
damage, pesticides, economic threshold level, pest type, status and
abundance level, natural enemies, integrated pest management,
growth of the rice plant, rice growth stages, pest status in rice,
diversity of organisms and pests, types of pest damage, typical
examples of damage caused by rice pests and diseases,
transformation of rice agroecosystem, insect pests, changing status
of rice insect pests in Bangladesh from 1965-2009, abundance,
distribution, and yield loss potential of economically important
insect pests, major rice pests and diseases according to rice
season, vertebrate pests, list of potential insect pests of rice in
Bangladesh, list of diseases and weeds
