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PhilRice Magazine: Pest Busters

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Publication date
02/06/2011
Number of Pages
32
Language:
English
Type of Publication:
Working Papers & Briefs
Focus Region:
Asia and the Pacific
Focus Topic:
Health & Diseases
Type of Risk:
Biological & environmental
Type of Risk Managment Option:
Risk reduction/mitigation
Commodity:
Crops
Author
PhilRice

This Quarter 4 2011 issue focuses on the issue of pests, with a special focus on IPM CRSP. Farmers in selected sites in Central and Northern Luzon, for example, are now following the approaches under the Integrated Pest Management Collaborative Research Support Program (IPM CRSP) set up by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) as the path toward agricultural progress. The IPM CRSP has an encompassing scope; it covers agriculture, trade, environment, and gender equity. In not a few places where it works, the program promotes production options in a manner we have rarely seen before.

IPM helps reduce agricultural losses owing to pests (insects, weeds, vertebrates, diseases), damage to national ecosystems, and pollution and contamination of food and water supplies. Through IPM, crop losses and pesticide use are reduced, income is increased, and technological capabilities are improved.