Making neem slurry
Making neem slurry
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Safe pest management in Cambodia: Calling for impact
Some insects like eating vegetables, but most consumers don’t like to share theirs. Protecting vegetable crops from insect pests remains a huge challenge for farmers; many often over-apply chemical pesticides to reduce the risk of crop loss and deliver unblemished produce to the market.
Know the enemy
Correctly identifying pests and diseases is the first step in safe control.
Attraction in Action project attracts yard-long bean farmers in Cambodia, promotes IPM in Lao PDR
These beans mean business and better nutrition for farmers and consumers in Cambodia and Lao PDR.
Five for five
Enterprising vegetable growers demonstrate skills and knowledge gained through two WorldVeg projects.
Attraction in Action project promotes brassica and legume IPM in Vietnam
The Vietnam Academy of Agricultural Sciences (VAAS) organized a field day on integrated pest management (IPM) under WorldVeg’s Attraction in Action project, funded by BMZ/GIZ.
Pests beware! WorldVeg now hosting RealIPM in Tanzania
On 17 March 2017, Thomas Dubois, Regional Director, WorldVeg Eastern and Southern Africa Tanzania, and Henry Wainwright, managing director and founder of RealIPM, signed a hosting agreement that will see both organizations work closer together to combat pests and diseases through biological control.
Attraction in Action: Promoting brassica and legume IPM in Lao PDR
Forty-four farmers including 20 women from Phaxang, Nadao, Phatang and Soksay villages gathered at Phaxang village in Kasi district of Vientiane Province, Lao PDR on 6 December 2016 to see the effectiveness of integrated pest management (IPM) strategies based on biopesticides on yard-long bean and vegetable brassicas. -- MORE --
Resist Detect Protect
This project designs alternative options for insect pest management and will set the stage for partners to promote and popularize these options.
Use of insect pheromones in vegetable pest management: Successes and struggles
Insect pheromones can be used to monitor, mass-trap, and/or disrupt the mating process of insect pests. Such traps are highly effective in reducing the damage and yield losses caused by monophagous insects such as eggplant fruit and shoot borer (Leucinodes orbonalis), as demonstrated in the Indo-Gangetic Plains of South Asia by the World Vegetable Center.