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News & Updates
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GIS/GPS Training Material
June 08, 2009
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GIS/GPS are commonly used in large scale agricultural research projects such as the ones in IPM CRSP.
These two technologies are ideal tools for managing data about the nature, location and spread of
pests, analyzing the trend and pattern, and making pest management decision.
They provide the capacity for tracking the result of the actions such as biological
control application.
To help IPM CRSP community incorporate GIS/GPS in their research projects,
we developed this training material. Please note that this training material is 2MB in size.
Although it just takes a few seconds to load it
with a high speed connection, it may take awhile to load it under a slower network connection.
Please contact us by e-mail if you have an issue.
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IPM program fights global agricultural pests
November 12, 2008
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Integrated Pest Management and information technology specialists at North Carolina State University are helping developing countries use the Internet to manage old pests and to guard their borders against new pests.
Funded by the U.S. Agency of International Development Integrated Pest Management Collaborative Research Support Program (USAID IPM CRSP), Yulu Xia and Ron Stinner with the Center for Integrated Pest Management (CIPM) are developing a network of pest databases for developing countries around the world. The center is housed in the College of Agriculture
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Invasive Papaya Pest Discovered in Asia
October 08, 2008
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Thanks to efforts by scientists in a Virginia Tech-led program, the papaya mealybug — an emerging threat from India to Indonesia — is being identified and contained.
Attacks by the papaya mealybug are a serious threat. In Indonesia, India, countries in the Caribbean and South America, the Hawaiian Islands, and Florida, papaya means millions of dollars for farmers, middlemen, and processors. In West Java, the scourge has wiped out most of the papaya plantations.
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