Integrated Pest Management is a collection of common sense techniques that farmers can use to fight pests without relying too heavily on highly toxic pesticides.
But what exactly are these techniques?
The practices will vary depending on the crop, the season, the location, but the IPM Innovation Lab has put together a series of “packages,” provide hands-on instructions for a suite of techniques simultaneously on various crop. For instance, farmers growing tomato….
Tomato Package
Growing Healthy Seedling with Coconut Pith
IPM packages: Tomato, Cole Crops and Cucumber
Trichoderma
Virus management in Vegetables
Chemical pesticides, following PERSUAP
Fact Sheet on ‘Tomato Grafting’