FAO Plant Protection Bulletin (1993) 41, p. 91 (Moscardi)
F. Moscardi (1993)
Soybean integrated pest management in Brazil
FAO Plant Protection Bulletin 41 (2), 91-91
Abstract: Soybean integrated pest management (IPM) was successfully implemented in Brazil in the mid-1970s, involving a comprehensive effort by research institutes and extension services in transferring available IPM technologies to farmers. Since then, IPM has been adopted in different regions of the country, with a dramatic reduction in insecticide usage of over 65 percent. Environmentally sound IPM tactics, such as the use of biological control agents, cultural practices and host-plant resistance, were developed and incorporated into the routine of soybean farmers. A nuclear polyhedrosis virus of Anticarsia gemmatalis, AgNPV, first used in the 1982/83 season, has reached around a million hectares annually since the 1989/90 season. Similar efforts were started in the 1990/91 season using the egg-parasitoid Trissolcus basalis for stink bug control. An overview of the Brazilian soybean IPM programme is presented, with emphasis on insect pests.
Database assignments for author(s): Flavio Moscardi
Research topic(s) for pests/diseases/weeds:
control - general
biocontrol - natural enemies
Research topic(s) for beneficials or antagonists:
review
