CRSP Integrated Pest Management (IPM) : CRSPs

Virginia Tech entomologist helps Asian farmers fend off papaya mealybug

In 2008, the IPM CRSP identified the presence of the papaya mealybug in Indonesia and India. Since then, its efforts to control the devastating, invasive pest […]

Date of Publication: 10/14/2012
Author(s): Not Available
Type of Document: Newspaper Article

Region: Asia
Topic: Food Security

CRSP: Integrated Pest Management (IPM)

Database: Publication

Arthropod Pests of Horticultural Crops in Tropical Asia

Abstract: Insect pests are a constant threat to agriculture in developing countries. They often cause up to 40% of losses to crop yields and affect food […]

Date of Publication: October 2012
Author(s): Muni Muniappan; B. Merle Shepard; Gerald Carner; Peter Aun-Chuan Ooi
Type of Document: Scholarly Article

Region: Asia
Topic: Food Security

CRSP: Integrated Pest Management (IPM)

Database: Publication

Virginia Tech research program confirms presence of invasive insect in Senegal

The confirmation of Tuta absoluta is the first of the insect’s presence in the country. Tuta causes damage primarily to tomato but could also affect other […]

Date of Publication: 9/28/2012
Author(s): Melissa Smith
Type of Document: Newspaper Article

Region: Sub-Saharan Africa
Topic: Food Security

CRSP: Integrated Pest Management (IPM)

Database: Publication

IPM CRSP Technical Workplan 2012-2013

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Date of Publication: 9/24/2012
Author(s): IPM CRSP
Type of Document: ME Documentation

Region: Global
Topic: Food Security

CRSP: Integrated Pest Management (IPM)

Database: Publication

Massive campaign reduces use of pesticides : Officials

According to Syed Nurul Alam, chief of the entomology division of the Bangladesh Agriculture Research Institute (BARI) and an IPM CRSP researcher, pesticide use has gone […]