Tuesday, July 22, 2008

Real IPM

From their website:
The Real IPM company (a development marketplace finalist) mass produces beneficial insects and biopesticides for use in Integrated Pest Management programmes in Kenya and beyond, providing growers with good quality, affordable biological controls...If pesticides are not used to protect crops, the grower needs to use other methods, which could be naturally occurring biological controls (natural enemies, predators and parasites); cultural controls (crop rotation, resistant varieties), physical controls (vegetable oils, botanical detergents, netting screens etc) and compatible pesticides (which are less harmful to natural enemies, the spray operator and to the environment).These methods are ‘integrated’ into an IPM programme.

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