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40 Despite the individual adoption index for each component, a weighted adoption index was calculated according to the estimated individual contribution of each method to overall control. The weighted index was 0.64, which is a good level, considering that IPM is more a concept than a technology. The adoption of the cultural component was higher than in the other countries involved in the project. In 1998 Cenicafé commenced an IPM participatory research project with 115 small coffee growers affected by CBB in the central coffee zone (Baker et al. 2002). Of the total, 68% were intensive growers (5000 or more trees/ha) and 9% were traditional growers, with the remainder placed in the intermediate category. The objectives of the project were to: Increase adoption of components of the IPM strategy. Develop a process to facilitate understanding of IPM by coffee growers. As part of the project, the change in the adoption rate of the IPM components between 1998 and 2001 was measured. Cultural control (Re-re) remained a predominant form of control, whilst the use of chemical control was significantly reduced between 1998 and 2001; significant increases occurred in the use of other components, such as biological and post-harvest control (Table 19). Table 19. Adoption of IPM components by IPM participatory research projectgrowers 1998 and 2001. 2.7 Synopsis What were farmers who we met trying to tell us? Looking at the problems of the non- Colombian countries together, there is little doubt that most farmers find commercial problems in their broadest sense, centring around credit and marketing, as their principal difficulties. They tend to focus blame for their problems on intermediaries and government; they never mentioned the wider world and the globalisation debate. Because of the lack of premiums for quality, too many farmers simply do not see their coffee as a high value product that will repay careful tending. Probably the single most important step towards controlling CBB would be the introduction of a country-wide quality scheme such as in Colombia.
But we have to consider also that the use and implementation of the IPM strategy has not been easy for the coffee farmers. IPM is a knowledge-intensive strategy which is difficult to adopt due to the many measurements, calculations and estimations required to arrive at an optimally cost-effective control regime. 41
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