Farmer Association of Quang Trung Commune: the IPM Club Opens

    IPM stands for Integrated Pest Management in agriculture. Basic function of IPM club is to help local farmers in self-control production and raising awareness and innovation for traditional cultivating methods, outdated techniques of plant care and management, share advanced experience among farmers to settle problems occurring during production process (based on unique of each local area). In addition, the club helps to encourage control certain diseases such as Colectotrichum zibethinum, anobium borer, Chlumetia transversa, Corticium salmonicolor, etc. locally damage plants in some areas so that farmers can be proposed some measures for timely pestilent insect treatment. Besides, it is responsible for reports pestilent insect happening in some types of plants during its development phases, which enable farmer to produce effective preventive measures for pestilent insects. Besides, it also offer technology transfer to them so that they can apply appropriate formulas in grain and fruit plants instead of widely using insecticides, which have bad effects on human.

(Reported by N.Thuong, Translated by L.H)