The latest issue of the Arab and Near East Plant Protection Newsletter (ANEPPNEL), published jointly by the Arab Society for Plant Protection and the Near East Regional Office of the Food and Agricultural Organisation of the United Nations, is now available.
Among the 26 pages of information from the region, items with a distinct Integrated Pest Management (IPM) focus include:
The newsletter also includes news of postgraduate students’ activities abroad under the ‘Sustainable IPM technologies for Mediterranean fruit and vegetable crops’ programme, including topics such as IPM for tomato leaf miner (Tuta absoluta ) in Egyptian tomato crops, the efficacy of eco-friendly and bio-rational insecticides for the same pest and an investigation of viral diseases in an Apulian fig germplasm collection.
Furthermore, there is a report on the wrap-up workshop of the FAO regional project on Tuta aboluta management, which has involved 48 Farmer Field Schools (FFSs) in five countries providing farmers with IPM and biological control tools to minimise pesticide applications. The number of applications has been halved in some countries through the programme, which in addition to training 857 farmers through FFSs, included regional training of 4,600 farmers and the training of more than 600 technical staff in establishing FFSs and facilitation, biological control and pest risk analysis.
On a similar theme, there is also a report of a three-day workshop held in October to evaluate the role of FFSs for anchoring sustainable IPM among small-scale farmers. Participants identified successes, gaps and challenges over the past decade of FFSs in the region and provided suggestions for further development of the system.
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