Status of integrated pest management and its program implementation in the Philippines
1990
Sumangil, J.P.
IPM [Integrated Pest Management] is the core of crop protection policy in Philippine agriculture. The present program emphasizes on farmer's profits over gross production at any cost. The priority crops, in order of importance, are rice, corn, vegetables and banana. Functionally, the program is strongly regionalized with high dependency on multisectoral approach to problem solving. The operationalization of the national IPM program is guided by a series of Department of Agriculture [Philippines] special orders which define the basic organization at different levels of implementation. The membership includes heads or representatives of sixteen related government and private organizations, agencies units and projects. Thirteen regional state colleges and universities including Benguet State University [La Trinidad, Benguet, Philippines] are involved in the regional IPM research and development. Results of studies involving farmer's field trials have shown the higher profitability of threshold or need-based decisions compared to calendar treatment in rice. The nation wide problem on golden kuhol (Pomacea canaliculata) was tackled using non-chemical alternative methods, systematic multi-media campaign, and inter-agency cooperations. A total of 154,037 farmers, 10,887 agricultural production technologists and 737 subject matter specialists have been trained from 1984 to 1989. An approach to training and extension called KAP (knowledge, attitude and practice) was developed by the FAO Rice Programme for South and Southeast Asia and has been found effective in the present IPM program.
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