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Crop Protection

Research Program Manager: Dr T K Lim
email: lim@aciar.gov.au

The Crop Protection program has three main emphases: a systems approach to improving pre-harvest crop productivity including integrated pest management of pests and diseases; postharvest handling and disinfestation treatments; and biosecurity issues including diagnostics, pest/disease surveys and surveillance and assessment of the quarantine risk of specific horticultural crop.

Current Projects

CP/1998/005 - Managing pest fruit flies to increase production of fruit and vegetable crops in Vietnam

CP/2000/043 - Huanglongbing management for Indonesia, Vietnam and Australia

CP/2002/086 - Improving postharvest quality of temperate fruits in Vietnam and Australia

CP/2002/115 - Diseases of crops in the central provinces of Vietnam: diagnosis, extension and control

CP/2003/029 - Management of potato late blight in Papua New Guinea

CP/2003/036 - Managing pest fruit flies to enhance quarantine services and upgrade fruit and vegetable production in Indonesia

CP/2003/042 - Fruit fly management in Papua New Guinea

CP/2004/034 - Diagnosis and management of wilt diseases of banana in Indonesia

CP/2004/048 - Integrated disease management (IDM) for anthracnose, Phytophthora blight and whitefly transmitted geminiviruses in chilli pepper in Indonesia

CP/2004/064 - Biological control of "mile-a-minute" (Mikania micrantha) in Papua New Guinea and Fiji

CP/2004/071 - Reducing pest and disease impact on yield in selected PNG sweet potato production systems

CP/2005/075 - Integrated soil and crop management for rehabilitation of vegetable production in the tsunami-affected areas of NAD Province, Indonesia

CP/2005/136 - Mitigating the threat of banana Fusarium wilt: understanding the agroecological distribution of pathogenic forms and developing disease management strategies

CP/2005/167 - Optimising the productivity of the potato/Brassica cropping system in Central and West Java

CP/2006/017 - Management of Eumetopina flavipes: the vector of ramu stunt disease of sugarcane in Papua New Guinea

CP/2006/063 - Integrated pest management for Finschhafen disorder of oil palm in Papua New Guinea

CP/2006/066 - Improving productivity and fruit quality of sweet persimmon in Vietnam and Australia

CP/2006/112 - Increasing the safe production, promotion and utilisation of indigenous vegetables by women in Vietnam and Australia

CP/2006/114 - Managing cocoa pod borer in PNG through improved risk incursion management capabilities, IPM strategies and stakeholder participatory training

CP/2006/147 - Integrated pest management of stem borers and insect vectors of viral diseases of sugarcane in Indonesia

CP/2006/170 - Plant biosecurity: Technological research and training for improved pest diagnostics in Thailand and Australia

CP/2007/111 - Incursion prevention and management of coffee berry borer (CBB) in Papua New Guinea (PNG) and Indonesia (South Sulawesi and Papua)

CP/2007/123 - Scoping study to identify agricultural R&D needs and opportunities of rural upland communities in north-western Vietnam

CP/2007/187 - Technical support facility for commercialisation of protein bait production in north Vietnam