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Section 6
SIMULTANEOUS INSECT PEST AND DISEASE MANAGEMENT
An ‘Insect Pest and Disease Management’ section is incorporated in this field guide to
highlight several discovery-based exercises, which simultaneously address management of
both insect pest and plant disease problems in organic vegetable production. All discoverybased
exercises compiled under this section are either new or additional exercises identified in a
previous curriculum development workshops conducted in 1998 211 and 2008 212 , respectively, which
were validated by participants in a previous intensive one-month Refresher Course for Trainers
of Farmer Field Schools in IPM for Crucifers and Other Vegetables in the Cordilleras 213 and in a
recent three-day Write-shop to Develop A Field Guide of Discovery-based Exercises for FFS of IPM
on Organic Vegetable Farming 214 held in 1998 and 2008, respectively. Many of these discoverybased
exercises were adapted from Field Guide of Discovery-based Exercises for Vegetable IPM,
Volume II 215 . These exercises emphasize some fundamental principles of insect pest and disease
management 216 , such as:
• Exclusion. Exclusionary measures prevent a pest or pathogen from entering and becoming
established in a non-infested or non-infected area. Measures include plant quarantine
regulations, crop diversification, and use of certified pest- or disease-free seed materials.
• Eradication. This involves eliminating a pest or pathogen once it has become established
on plant or in a cropping area. Non-chemical eradication measures include removing and
destroying pest-infested or disease-infected materials and plant trash, leaf removal, pruning
and crop rotation with non-susceptible crops.
211 Binamira, J.S. 1998. A Consultant’s Report: Curriculum Development for Trainers and Farmer Field Schools on IPM in Crucifers and Other Highland
Vegetable Crops. Cordillera Highland Agricultural Resources Management Project, Department of Agriculture, CAR Regional Field Unit, Baguio City,
Philippines. pp6-23.
212 Callo, Jr., D.P. 2008. Highlights of Outputs. Workshop on Designing Farmer Field School Curriculum on Integrated Pest Management For Organic
Vegetable Production held on 28-30 April 2008 at the Philippine Council for Agriculture, Forestry and Natural Resources Research and Development
Council (PCARRD), Los Baños, Laguna, Philippines.
213 Binamira, J.S. 1998. A Consultant’s Report: Refresher Course for Trainers of IPM in Crucifers and Other Highland Vegetable Crops. Cordillera Highland
Agricultural Resources Management Project, Department of Agriculture, CAR Regional Field Unit, Baguio City, Philippines. pp15-22.
214 Callo, Jr., D.P. 2008. Highlights of Outputs. Write-shop to Develop A Field Guide of Discovery-based Exercises for FFS of IPM on Organic Vegetable
Farming conducted in the Philippines on 17-19 June 2008 at the Philippine Council for Agriculture, Forestry and Natural Resources Research and
Development Council (PCARRD), Los Baños, Laguna, Philippines.
215 Callo, Jr., D.P., L.B. Teofilo, and H.A. Tauli (eds). 2002. Field Guide of Discovery-based Exercises for Vegetable IPM, Volume II. SEAMEO Regional
Center for Graduate Study and Research in Agriculture (SEARCA), Los Baños, Laguna, Philippines. pp 259-286.
216 Quebral, F.C. 1988. What one should know about plant diseases. University of the Philippines Los Baños, College, Laguna, Philippines. pp11-20.
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