IPM CRSP Regional Programs:
Central Asia Regional Integrated Pest Management (IPM)
Project
Ecologically-based Participatory and Collaborative Research and Capacity Building in IPM in the Central Asia Region
Implementing Agency: Michigan State
University, in collaboration with ICARDA/PFU, Tashkent,
Uzbekistan
(Funding Agency: USAID IPM-CRSP,
managed by Virginia Tech)
The focus of the
Central Asia regional IPM program is to break the
isolation of this area and build IPM capacity through
collaborative and participatory research and training.
It operates in the countries of Uzbekistan, Tajikistan,
Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan, and Kazakhstan. The program is
developing a comprehensive IPM initiative, using an
ecologically-based and multidisciplinary systems
approach. Michigan State University, the University of
California-Davis and ICARDA serve as host institutions
for implementing this collaborative and participatory
research/education program.
Project Description:
The
project consists of three components: Landscape Ecology,
Biological Control and Education-Outreach. The specific
activities being implemented are based on the needs
assessment and priorities identified at a regional IPM
Stakeholders Forum organized in Uzbekistan in May 2005.
Component 1: Landscape ecology to enhance biodiversity
and biological pest management
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This component is designed
to investigate the use of native plants for
conserving natural enemy communities and enhancing
biological control of field crop pests in Central Asia,
and to investigate and implement the most promising
landscape management techniques in partnership with
governmental agencies, universities, NGOs and farmers in
the region.
Landscape Ecology Research Team
Members:
Dr. Douglas Landis, Michigan State
University
Dr. Mustapha El-Bouhssini, ICARDA
Mr. Nurali Saidov, Research Fellow |
An insect trap in a cotton field in
Samarkand, Uzbekistan by U.S. scientists in May of
2005. |
Component 2: Enhance efficiency,
product lines and crop usage of Central Asian
biolaboratories
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The overall goal of this component
is to work with Central Asian researchers, educators and
farmers to identify, produce and introduce into
vegetable production systems candidate entomophages for
management of spider mites and insect pests which are
not currently targets of those produced by
biolaboratories.
Biological Control Research Team Members:
Dr.
Frank Zalom, University of California, Davis
Dr. Barno Tashpulatova, Research
Fellow |
U.S. scientists interact with farmers in
Samarkand, Uzbekistan in May of 2005. |
Component 3: Develop and
implement IPM extension/outreach and university
education programs
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This
project component aims at enhancing IPM educational and
outreach programs in the region through training of
trainers (TOT), farmer field schools and the development
of IPM educational resources/materials to
integrate new information, teaching tools and
methodologies into existing IPM outreach and educational
programs.
Education-Outreach Team Members:
Dr. George Bird, Michigan State
University
Dr. Walter Pett, Michigan State
University
Mr. Murat Aitmatov,
Education-Outreach Fellow |
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| A visit to a private biolaboratory in Samarkand,
Uzbekistan by U.S. scientists in May of 2005.
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For more information, please
contact:
Dr. Karim Maredia, Director of
Central Asia Regional IPM Program, Michigan State
University (kmaredia@msu.edu)
Dr. Raj Paroda, Director, ICARDA/PFU,
Central Asia and Caucuses, Tashkent, Uzbekistan (r.paroda@cgiar.org)
Mr. Dieudonné Baributsa, Program
Assistant, Michigan State University
(baributs@msu.edu)
Photos from the project (Click on the thumbnails
for enlarged photos)
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U.S. scientists interact with
farmers in Samarkand, Uzbekistan in May of 2005. |
Wheat is the major crop in Uzbekistan. Here,
bread is sold on the open market in Tashkent. |
An insect trap in a cotton field in
Samarkand, Uzbekistan by U.S. scientists in May of
2005. |
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| A visit to a private biolaboratory in Samarkand,
Uzbekistan by U.S. scientists in May of 2005. |
A visit to the Tashkent Agrarian State
University Biolaboratory by U.S. scientists in May
of 2005 |
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PI: Karim Maredia, Michigan State Universtiy
E-mail:
kmaredia@msu.edu
Web:
http://www.iia.msu.edu/ |
