Transcript HOW GREEN IS YOUR PEST CONTROL PROGRAM?---

INTEGRATED PEST
MANAGEMENT-
9/8/2011
INTRODUCTION
• HISTORY
• DEFINITIONS
HISTORY OF IPM
• Continuous struggle for food
• Modern Technology-improved seeds,
HYV, Chemicals, machinery
• HYV responsive to chemical inputs
• Failure to combat pest problems
HISTORY OF IPM
• 1959 - Integrated Control Concept
• 1962 – Rachael Carson, “Silent Spring”
• 1970 – EPA established
• 1972 – EPA Cancels most uses of DDT
HISTORY OF IPM
• 1993 - The Clinton Administration called
for implementation of IPM on 75% of
America’s crop land by the year 2000
• 1996 – Food Quality Protection Act
HISTORY OF IPM
• 1998 – IPM Institute of North America
formed
• 2003 – Green Shield Certification
established
• Today – 33 states have IPM programs
DEFINITIONS
• Many and varied
• Most are associated with agriculture
• Depends on what outlook is represented
• Each organization will need to establish a
definition that works for their facility
Main goals of IPM?
• To cut down the cost of production.
• To promote a healthy environment - less
environmental pollution, health risks.
• To promote and encourage non-chemical
methods of pest control.
CORNELL UNIVERSITY
• Integrated pest management, or IPM, is
both a way of thinking and a way of acting
in regard to pests. People who practice
IPM try to prevent damage from pests or
to manage them in ways that reduce risks
to the environment and human health.
In summary
• IPM can cut the cost of food
production.....promote a healthy
environment.....and utilise natural
processes to suppress pest
populations.
Pest is a concern only when
• The number reaches damaging levels
affects yield.
SCHOOL IPM WEBSITE
• IPM is a process for balancing the risks
between pests and pesticides to achieve
long term pest suppression. Control
strategies in an IPM program extend
beyond the application of pesticides to
include structural and procedural
modifications that reduce the food, water,
harborage, and access used by pests.
DEFINITION
• Some definitions of IPM:
• ....the use of all available tactics in design
of a program to manage, not eradicate,
pest populations so that economic
damage and harmful environmental side
effects are minimised.
DEFINITION
• IPM is the integration of available
techniques to reduce pest populations and
maintain them below the levels causing
economic injury in a way which avoids
harmful side effects.
DEFINITION
• IPM is a pest management system that,
in the context of the associated
environment and the population
dynamics of the pest species, utilises
all suitable techniques and methods as
compatible a manner as possible and
maintains the pest population at levels
below those causing injury