Commercial Insecticides Used in Tomato Pest Control

This dataset, tomato_insecticides, is a data frame containing a curated record of 15 commercial insecticide products used for pest control in tomato (Solanum lycopersicum) cultivation. Each entry documents the product name, active ingredient, and target pest group (caterpillars, aphids, whiteflies, mites, thrips, and nematodes).

Usage

data(tomato_insecticides)

Format

A data frame with 15 observations and 4 variables:

insecticide_id

Character vector indicating the insecticide identifier

product_name

Character vector indicating the product name

active_ingredient

Character vector indicating the active ingredient

target_pest

Character vector indicating the target pest group

Source

Data taken from Zenodo: https://zenodo.org/records/21611429

Details

The dataset name has been kept as 'tomato_insecticides' to avoid confusion with other datasets in the R ecosystem. This naming convention helps distinguish this dataset as part of the agridatasets package and assists users in identifying its specific characteristics.