Research that works for developing countries and Australia

 

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.

Relevant Publications

MN132 - TaroPest: an illustrated guide to pests and diseases of taro in the South Pacific

MN131 - Integrated pest and disease management for sustainable cocoa production: a training manual for farmers and extension workers

FR2008-22 - Establishment of fruit fly pest-free areas

FR2008-23 - Research and implementation issues related to management of the brown planthopper / virus problem in rice in Vietnam

FR2008-24 - Targeting crop protection R&D towards social change amongst ethnic minority communities in central Vietnam

FR2008-25 - The role of women in the safe production, promotion and utilisation of indigenous vegetables

MN129 - Diagnostic manual for plant diseases in Vietnam

MN119c [Thai] - Guidelines for surveillance for plant pests in Asia and the Pacific

CP09 - Liriomyza Parasitoids in Southeast Asia

MN119b [Vietnamese] - Guidelines for surveillance for plant pests in Asia and the Pacific

CP13 - Country profiles 2007

AR 2006-07 - Annual Report 2006-07

EXT05 - National Agriculture Development Plan 2007-2016

PMg Jul-Oct 07 - Partners Magazine July - October 2007

AOP 2007-08 - Annual Operational Plan 2007-08

MN119a [Indonesian] - Guidelines for surveillance for plant pests in Asia and the Pacific

CP09 - Country Profiles 2006

IAS40 - Zero tillage for weed control in India: the contribution to poverty alleviation

MN117 - Selecting Safer Pesticides - integrating risk assessment, monitoring and management of pesticides

PMg Autumn 06 - Partners Magazine Autumn 2006

PMg July 05 - Partners Magazine July 2005

PMg June 04 - Partners Magazine June 2004

CP10 - Country Profiles 2005

CP08 - Sweetpotato DiagNotes

PR069 - South Pacific Indigenous Nuts

IAS24 - Assessment of Rodent Control Projects in Vietnam: Adoption and Impact

AR 2003-04 - Annual Report 2003-04

MN111 - High-yielding anthracnose-resistant Stylosanthes for agricultural systems

PR076 - Management of Fruit Flies in the Pacific

TR55 - Chromolaena in the Asia-Pacific Region

CP06 - Guide to Fumigation Under Gas-Proof Sheets

MN102 - Lantana: Current Management Status and Future Prospects

MN051 - Biological Control of Insect Pests: Southeast Asian Prospects

MN079 - Biological Control of Water Hyacinth 2

MN012 - Biological Control - Pacific Prospects: supplement 1

MN059 - Ecologically-based Rodent Management

PR031 - Bacterial Wilt of Groundnut

MN021 - The Major Arthropod Pests and Weeds of Agriculture in Southeast Asia

PR013 - Bacterial Wilt Disease in Asia and the South Pacific

MN044 - The Major Invertebrate Pests and Weeds of Agriculture and Plantation Forestry in Southern and Western Pacific

MN046 - The Distribution and Importance of Arthropod Pests and Weeds of Agriculture and Forestry Plantations in Southern China

MN020 - Biological Control - Pacific Prospects: supplement 2

MN094 - Survey Toolbox for Aquatic Animal Diseases: A Practical Manual and Software Package

MN045 - Report on ACIAR-Funded Research on Viroids and Viruses of Coconut Palm and Other Tropical Monocotyledons 1985-1993

TR21 - Production of Pathogen-tested Sweet Potato

TR18 - Post-Flask Management of Tissue-cultured Bananas

MN068 - Distribution and importance of arthropods associated with agriculture and forestry in Chile

RN26 - Non-chemical Control of Rodents in Lowland Irrigated Rice Crops

PR065 - Mineral Deficiencies in Root Crops

PR045 - Bacterial Wilt

MN026 - Biological Control of Weeds: Southeast Asian Prospects

TR36 - A Guide to the Zygotic Embryo Culture of Coconut Palms (Cocos nucifera L.)

MN067 - The Distribution and Importance of Arthropod Pests and Weeds of Agriculture in Myanmar

MN049 - Biological control of weeds: theory and practical application

MN027 - Recollections of a Pacific entomologist 1925-1966

CoP04 - Suggested recommendations for the fumigation of grain in the ASEAN region

MN003 - Grain protectants

CP07 - Weeds of upland crops in Cambodia

IAS46 - Mite pests of honey bees in the Asia-Pacific region

CP11 - Adoption of ACIAR project outputs: studies of projects completed in 2002-2003