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Growing crops in places where major pests don't live using beneficial insects to eat harmful insects using a rat trap instead of a rodenticide developing drought-resistant tomato plants using beneficial insects or natural oils to repel pests planting a different crop every year to fake out the pests keeping food covered to deter ants and rodents developing bean plants with a resistance to fungus picking caterpillars off tomato plants cultivation practice biological control cultural control genetic resistance natural chemicals