INTEGRATED PEST MANAGEMENT

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INTEGRATED PEST MANAGEMENT

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• PALESTINE

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INTRODUCTION

• -Agriculture sector is considered one of the
  major productive sector in Palestine.
• -Scarcity of land compared to the population of
  Palestine, forced the intensive agriculture.

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IPM

• -This made numerous problems, one of which is the
  spread of pests and causes great damage to the
  crops during growth.
• -As a consequence farmers pay a great attention
  and cost to the protection of their crops by
  using the available pesticides.

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• - Application of pesticides has become the major
  problem of modern agriculture.
• - Many pesticides are toxic for
• Plants - Domestic animals - Wild life - The human
  being who misuse the chemical pesticides and
  consumes agricultural products that contains
  residues.

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• AND elimination of natural enemies useful in
  the fight against these pests safely.

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• For years, Palestine farmers have followed the
  same trend used in the word of exclusively
  focusing on the use of chemical pesticides.
• In many cases farmers rarely use other safe
  environmental methods due to the lack of
  knowledge and information about IPM.

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• For the reasons mentioned..
• The orientation of the Ministry of Agriculture,
  and within the strategic plans at the national
  level, is the tendency to legalize the use of
  agricultural pesticides and adopt an integrated
  pest management IPM
• and

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IPM

• and harnessing all its energies to achieve this
  goal, at the level of public and private sector,
  by raising the capacity of professionals in the
  field of integrated pest management, as well as
  farmers alike.
• and

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• and opening lines with all international
  organizations that deal with this issue to gain
  maximum benefit that can be made in this area.

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IPM

• In this regard, held many successful activities
  and projects in Palestine, used a wide range of
  methods of integrated pest management.
• Which

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• which reflected positively on the level of access
  to food crops are free of residues of toxic
  pesticides, in addition to maintaining the
  integrity of the environment and human beings,
  and not harm the useful natural enemies, and
  also, of course, less expensive.

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IPM

• MAJOR
• IPM Activities
• in
• PALESTINE

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Tuta absoluta

• Using IPM helped positively to the reduction of
  the dangers of this pest, through the following
  methods
• - Hygiene remove the infected parts of the farm
  and burned or buried, and weed control.

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Tuta absoluta

• - Use Different types of traps (water traps with
  pheromone, Light traps).

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Tuta absoluta

• - mass trapping sexual attraction phermone
  (Aquatic traps).-
• - Entrance of the greenhouse double entrance to
  protect from entering the insect (butterfly). 

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Farmer Field Schools FFS

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Farmer Field Schools FFS

• Until 2005, Palestine had no IPM policy nor food
  law and regulations, but has set a target to
  reduce pesticides by 50 percent!!

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Farmer Field Schools FFS

• Impact studies revealed the following results on
  the effectiveness of IPM/FFS training for
  Greenhouse farmers in West Bank

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Table 2. Differences between farmer field school
(FFS) participants and nonparticipants in their
protection against pesticides (Source CIP Survey
2001/2002). Variable FFS Non- FFS of farmers
who use some protection while spraying 74 65
of farmers who use some protection while
preparing pesticides 18 2
Major achievements I Greenhouse Cucumber FFSs
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10
Number of pesticides applications/0.1h/season
7
4
3
4
2004
2005
2006
2007
2008
2009
IPM cucumber greenhouse farmers were managed to
spray only 4 times all along the growing season,
while the Conventional greenhouse farmers
sprayed an average of 15 times. 73 reduction in
pesticides applications due to farmers training.
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Major achievements Greenhouse Tomato FFSs
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14
Number of pesticides applications/0.1h/season
8
7
2004
2005
2006
2007
6
2008
2009
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INSECTICIDE USE
FUNGICIDE USE
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Yield Increase
Yields Increased up to15 as a result of adopting
other practices learnt during the FFS, such as
improved seed varieties, water management and
enhanced plant nutrition
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Farmer Field Schools FFS

• Reduction in total input costs on an average by
  20 .

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Farmer Field Schools FFS

• Farmers gained better understanding about
  pesticides impact on human health and pay more
  attention to pre-harvest intervals when handling
  agro-chemicals compared to non FFS trained
  farmers.

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Producing IPM posters
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Sterile Insect Technique (SIT)

• The Palestinian territories are currently
  infested by two major species of fruit flies
• - Mediterranean fruit fly (Ceratitis capitata )
• - Olive Fruit Fly (Bactrocera oleae)

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MAIN GOALS of SIT

• - Reach a fruit fly low prevalence area
  (Suppression).
• - To reduce the fruit fly population and thereby
  limit damage and spread
• - Finally to reach a fruit fly free area
  (Eradication)

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SIT

• -3 million sterile males released weekly.

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Therefore..

• It is necessary to continue to change the old
  approach in plant protection by adopting a
  philosophy of integrated pest management, at the
  level of government and private sector.

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• In doing so, only, we can get a healthy crop is
  free of toxic residues of pesticides, as well as
  maintain the integrity of the environment, and
  achieve the goal the elimination of harmful
  agricultural pests.

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Table 2. Differences between farmer field school
(FFS) participants and nonparticipants in their
protection against pesticides (Source CIP Survey
2001/2002). Variable FFS Non- FFS of farmers
who use some protection while spraying 74 65
of farmers who use some protection while
preparing pesticides 18 2
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