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Regional Integrated Pest Management, Research, and Education for South Asia

This project builds on previous investment by expanding efforts in Bangladesh and India, extending and replicating the participatory IPM approach in Nepal, strengthening the network of linkages in IPM knowledge and expertise across all of South Asia, and undertaking significant and innovative graduate education.

Participatory appraisals, baseline surveys, and crop pest monitoring are conducted to help prioritize fruit and vegetable crops and pests. Research activities include pest and beneficial surveys in priority crops, laboratory, greenhouse, and on-farm field experiments on pest management components, assessment of socioeconomic constraints to adoption of IPM, development and testing of IPM packages, transfer of results and recommendations to technology transfer organizations, and assessment of social, economic, and gender impacts.

Technology transfer takes advantage of mechanisms already in place and takes into consideration a diverse array of approaches in order apply those that are most effective and efficient. With the help of such partnering organizations as CARE, MCC and Winrock, this project reaches tens of thousands of farmers. Aided by Winrock, the project stimulates small business development for IPM inputs such as pheromones, disease test kits, entomopathogenic organisms, and traps.  

PI: Ed Rajotte, Penn State University
E-mail: egrajotte@psu.edu
Web: http://www.ento.psu.edu/Personnel/Faculty/rajotte.htm