Integrated pest management for smallholder estate crops project. Loan n°1469-INO. Technical proposal. Summary of the technical proposal

BCEOM - FRA, CIRAD - CMR, Amurwa Pranata Consultants - IDN, Trans Intra Asia - IDN, Sigma Penta Agricultural Development Consultant - IDN. 1997. Integrated pest management for smallholder estate crops project. Loan n°1469-INO. Technical proposal. Summary of the technical proposal. Paris : CIRAD-BCEOM, 47 p.

Résumé : In the 1970s and 1980s outbreaks of brown planthopper (Nilaparvata lugens) caused devastation in the rice paddies of Java and Bali. This pest damages rice by sucking the sap, leaving the plant open to fungal and bacterial infection. Chemical pesticides against the brown planthopper also killed its natural predators, like spiders which would normally help to control brown planthopper populations. It became clear that because of the use of broad-spectrum insecticide, not despite it, pest outbreak's occurred, a phenomenon referred to as pest recurrence. The Government embraced IPM as the best way forward, a low-input system which builds on traditional strategies of pest management. IPM aims to integrate both biological and chemical pest control as well as adopting appropriate cultural practices and tolerant planting material on the farm. Environmentally friendly IPM practices as an alternative to only pesticides use will benefit the environment and increase farmer's income. Chemicals, while still being used as necessary, are only used in a way which is least disruptive to biological pest control. Since 1987, insecticide use has dropped 50%, while rice output has increased by 12%. This project wants to build on the remarkable achievements of IPM in rice-based farming systems. The Ministry of Agriculture now wants to extend IPM to the estate crop sub-sector. The following 5 smallholder estate crops are targeted for dissemination of IPM technology: cocoa, coffee, tea, cotton, black pepper, because IPM practices are already emerging for these crops.

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