# Cultural control

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In [agriculture](/source/agriculture) '''cultural control''' is the practice of modifying the growing environment to reduce the prevalence of unwanted [pest](/source/pest_(animal))s. Examples include changing [soil pH](/source/soil_pH) or [fertility](/source/fertility) levels, [irrigation](/source/irrigation) practices, amount of sunlight, temperature, or the use of beneficial animals (e.g. chickens) or insects (e.g. ladybugs) (biological control). Cultural control can help avoid pest population build-up, strengthen the overall resilience of a farming system and thereby reduce a need for curative interventions e.g., chemical pesticide applications. As such, a systematic implementation of cultural control practices can avert pesticide-induced detrimental effects on farmland biodiversity and the environment. Cultural control can involve the use of crop rotation, resistant varieties, tillage practice, regular weeding, fallowing, uprooting and burning infected crops.<ref>{{cite web|access-date=25 October 2014|language=en|publisher=College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, [université d'État de Caroline du Nord](/source/universit%C3%A9_d'%C3%89tat_de_Caroline_du_Nord)|title=''Cultural Control''|url=http://www.cals.ncsu.edu/course/ent425/text19/cultural.html}}<!-- auto-translated by Module:CS1 translator -->.</ref>

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