Tag Archives: IPM

Integrated pest management: good intentions, hard realities. A review

Integrated Pest Management (IPM)is the model of crop protection that has prevailed since its creation in the late 1950s. IPM has, by virtue of its broad...

Reducing pesticides and increasing crop diversification offer ecological and economic benefits for farmers—a case study in Cambodian rice fields

To increase incentives for farmers, the selection of surrounding plants should integrate information about farmers’ choices to increase potential adoption...

Host resistance, tolerance, and vulnerability determine levels of field damage from a complex of Asian rice stem borers

Rice yield losses due to stem borers and the choice by farmers to predominantly use insecticides to control stem borers demonstrate a continuing need to...

Farmer, service provider, manufacturer, extension worker: Four perspectives on rice seeders and IPM in Cambodia

Farmers, extension professionals, the private sector, and other stakeholders are uniquely impacted by agricultural innovation. The following are accounts...

Integrated management of weeds in direct-seeded rice in Cambodia

Weeds are a bigger problem for dry direct seeding rice (DDSR) compared to transplanting because they germinate and emerge at the same time as the rice...

Farmer-focused partnership leads to improvement, innovation of Cambodia’s rice sector

One of the strategies to encourage farmers to adopt sustainable tools is building linkages between farming communities and the private sector. The IRRI-IPM...

Working with Cambodian rice farmers to combat a plague of rodents

By adapting new rodent pest management strategies, Cambodian farmers are now able to defend their rice fields from their long-time adversary. ...

IPM (No, not integrated pesticide management!)

Even as we continue to promote farmer education on IPM principles and knowledge, it is important to start paying attention to the amount of investment...

Development of strategy to reduce Cambodian farmers’ reliance on pesticides is on track

Mr. Chou Cheythyrith, EPIC project partner from GDA, (facing camera) explains the experiment on Trichoderma and pest-resistant rice varieties to visiting...

Tiny wasps protect rice in the Mekong

Trichogramma are tiny beneficial wasps that feed on the eggs of several pests, including stemborers and leaffolders. To help rice farmers in the Greater...

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