Projects

Host Preference of Cucurbit Fruit Fly, Bactrocera cucurbitae, and its management in Bitter Gourd and Sweet Gourd by Using Pheromone and Indigenous Bait Traps

The cucurbit fruit fly is a highly damaging pest of almost all the cucurbit vegetables. Indiscriminate use of pesticides by the farmers to control the pest […]

  • Start Date: 1999
  • End Date: 2004
  • Project Code: Not Available
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Development of Integrated Management Package For the Control of Eggplant Fruit and Shoot Borer (FSB)

Fruit and Shoot Borer (FSB) of eggplant is a difficult pest to control with the use of unilateral control measures. Presently, the farmers’ practice of indiscriminate […]

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

Integrated Management of Soil-borne Diseases and Weeds in Tomato

This project evaluated the effects of soil amendments for the management of weeds and diseases complimenting other efforts including organic soil amendments with poultry refuse and […]

  • Start Date: 1999
  • End Date: 2004
  • Project Code: Not Available
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On-farm Demonstration for Management of Soil-borne Diseases in Tomato and Eggplant

Organic soil amendments with poultry refuse, mustard-oil cake, or others have been found effective to control or suppress the attacks of major disease pathogens and produce […]

  • Start Date: 1999
  • End Date: 2004
  • Project Code: Not Available
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Studies on Egg Parasitoid, Trichrogramma chilonis, for Control of Eggplant Fruit and Shoot Borer

This project sought to study mass-rearing and parasitism efficiency of the egg parasitoid. Parasitoids of eggplant Fruit and Shoot Borere (FSB) are available in the field […]

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

Diffusion of IPM Technologies of Vegetables in Selected Areas of Bangladesh

IPM scientists have developed a number of technologies that need to be disseminated to the farmers. This project promoted this dissemination of technologies to farmers. Farmer […]

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

Southeast Asia Site in the Philippines

IPM activities in the Philippines site were concentrated in four program areas. Research focused on on-farm pest management experiments; multidisciplinary laboratory, greenhouse, and microplot experiments; IPM […]

Integrated Weed Management Strategies in Rice-Onion Systems

This project examined how tillage, in the form of stale-seedbedtechniques before planting onion, can reduce tuber and shoot populations and reduce the need for postplantweeding, which […]

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

Parasitoid Abundance, Incidence of Larval Parasitism, and Effect of Trap Color on Attraction to the Onion Leafminer, Liriomyza trifolii(Burgess)

Onion farmers in the Philippines apply a large amount of insecticides against leafminers hoping to effectively manage this pest below damaging levels. Researchers believed that the […]

Influence of Host Resistance and Grafting on the Incidence of Bacterial Wilt of Eggplant

One of the problems in the management of the bacterial wilt disease of eggplant is the lack of basic information on the diverse nature of the […]

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