CRSP Integrated Pest Management (IPM) : CRSPs

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

CRSP: Integrated Pest Management (IPM)

Database: Project

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

CRSP: Integrated Pest Management (IPM)

Database: Project

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

CRSP: Integrated Pest Management (IPM)

Database: Project

Efficacy of Phosphine Gas in Treatment of Gall Midge on Hot Peppers

Hot peppers were fumigated as a postharvest treatment against gall midges and citrus midge, pests of the hot pepper in Jamaica. The infestation of gall midges […]

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

Region: Latin America and the Caribbean
Topic: Innovation

CRSP: Integrated Pest Management (IPM)

Database: Project

Molecular Probes to Distinguish Gall Midge Species

This project sought to identify molecular markers of two gall midget pests impacting hot peppers in Jamaica. A complex of at least 2 species of gall […]

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

Region: Latin America and the Caribbean
Topic: Food Security

CRSP: Integrated Pest Management (IPM)

Database: Project

Monitoring Pesticide Residue Levels on Callaloo and Hot Pepper

This project sought to provide information that will guide Caribbean users on persistence of pesticides under comparable climatic conditions.

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

Region: Latin America and the Caribbean
Topic: Food Security

CRSP: Integrated Pest Management (IPM)

Database: Project

Socio-economic Studies in Trinidad and Barbados

In Trinidad excessive chemical application among vegetable producers is widely practiced, chemical pest management policies did not exist, consumer markets demanded unblemished produce, and financially viable […]