Tag Archives: pest

Ensuring food security amidst the increasing population requires a pest surveillance system for staple food. Regularly collected pest surveillance data...

In the first such study in Sri Lanka, we identified the main rodent and shrew species and the extent of post-harvest damage caused in rice storage facilities...

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...

Most small rodent populations in the world have fascinating population dynamics. In the light of vast research and debate over almost a century, we here...

The rice eel, an invasive alien species, has become a slippery problem for many farmers in Northern and Central Philippines where most of the country’s...

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

(Photo: Finbarr Horgan, IRRI) Apple snails (Pomacea spp.) have been a problem for Asian rice farmers for decades. First introduced in the late 1980s to...

ON 25 MARCH 2014, the agricultural world celebrated what would have been the 100th birthday of Norman Borlaug (at center with trainees in Mexico in the...

(Photo: Gene Hettel) For more than 25 years, Kong Luen “K.L.” Heong worked at the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) as an entomologist,...

(Photo: Ho Van Chien) For years, the entomologists at Vietnam’s Southern Regional Plant Protection Center in Long Dinh had tried to sell rice farmers...