An IPM Strategy to Combat the Gall Midge Complex Affecting Hot Pepper

This project addressed constraints faced by hot pepper farmers including the ability to use field management practices to avoid the US-imposed mandatory fumigation requirement for fresh […]

• Start Date: 1999
• End Date: 2004
• Project Code: Not Available
• Lead University: Not Available

• Region: Latin America and the Caribbean
• Topic: Innovation

Factors Influencing Broad Mite and Predator Populations on Hot Peppers, as Components of a Broad Mite Integrated Pest Management Program

The overall goal of this project was to use IPM to minimize the deleterious effects of pesticides on users, consumers and the environment while keeping crop […]

• Start Date: 1999
• End Date: 2004
• Project Code: Not Available
• Lead University: Oregon State University

• Region: Latin America and the Caribbean
• Topic: Food Security

Caribbean Site in Jamaica, Trinidad, and Barbados

The work plan 2002-2003 (Year 10) continued the focus on consolidation of developmental work and wider dissemination of developed technologies. IPM CRSP has been a catalyst […]

• Start Date: 1999
• End Date: 2004
• Project Code: Not Available
• Lead University: Virginia Tech

• Region: Latin America and the Caribbean
• Topic: Food Security, Innovation, Productivity

Assessment of Virus Incidence in Superior Caribbean Sweetpotato Varieties

The goal of this project was to determine the status of Jamaican sweet potato varieties relative to natural infection with common sweetpotato viruses, using available technology […]

• Start Date: 1999
• End Date: 2004
• Project Code: Not Available
• Lead University: Virginia Tech

• Region: Latin America and the Caribbean
• Topic: Food Security

Determination of the best IPM strategy to manage the Lepidoptera complex on callaloo in two major agroecological zones and seasons in Jamaica

This activity focused on minimizing the use of production systems by identifying non-chemical methods that can be used to control callalloo pests.

• Start Date: 1999
• End Date: 2004
• Project Code: Not Available
• Lead University: Not Available

• Region: Latin America and the Caribbean
• Topic: Food Security

Integrated Management of Pests Affecting Cruciferous Vegetables

For ten years research has been conducted in the primary site in Jamaica which focused on addressing the problem of excessive pesticide use on a vegetable […]

• Start Date: 1999
• End Date: 2004
• Project Code: Not Available
• Lead University: Not Available

• Region: Latin America and the Caribbean
• Topic: Food Security

Integrated Pest Management of Major Pests affecting Sweetpotato, Ipomoea batatas, in the Caribbean

Sweetpotato weevils, sweetpotato leaf beetles, and the WDS soil insect complex significantly reduce sweetpotato production in Jamaica and the rest of the Caribbean. This project sought […]

• Start Date: 1999
• End Date: 2004
• Project Code: Not Available
• Lead University: Not Available

• Region: Latin America and the Caribbean
• Topic: Innovation, Productivity

Monitoring and Analysis of Introduced Technologies

Plant quarantine officers at the two major local ports Sangsters International Airport, Montego Bay and Norman Manley International Airport, Kingston were monitoring pest interception levels and […]

• Start Date: 1999
• End Date: 2004
• Project Code: Not Available
• Lead University: Not Available

• Region: Latin America and the Caribbean
• Topic: Food Security

McDonald, S.

• Start Date: 1998
• End Date: 2000
• University: Virginia Tech
• Degree: PhD

• Region: Latin America and the Caribbean
• Topic: Food Security

Ogrodowczyk, J.

• Start Date: 1997
• End Date: 1998
• University: Virginia Tech
• Degree: MS

• Region: Latin America and the Caribbean
• Topic: Markets