and Integrated Pest Management - part - usaid

ECONOMIC JUSTIFICATION OF IPM: THE
BILATERAL ACENCY'S VIEW
T. Engclhardt
Division Economist
Division 15 (Plant Production, Plant Protection, Forestry)
The German Agency for Technical Cooperation (GTZ)
Postfach 5180, 6236 Eschborn, West Germany
Projects designed to promote
developing integrated
countries
pest
are
management
the Federal (IPM)
Republic in
demand that development
of Germany's
cooperation
response to
should
the
take account
environmental
of the need for
Projects
protection.
of this type are
natural
intended
resources,
to meet several
utilizing objectives
ecological - conserving
reducing
balances
the
in agricultural
dangers threatening
production,
man
and
geared
as a
to
result
the short-sighted
of the use of farming
principle techniques
pest
of
management
profit maximization.
more efficient
IPM aims
by combining
to make
farming methods.
biological,
The intention
chemical,
is
and
not
arable
agriculture
to banish
altogether,
chemical
but
pest
rather
control
to ensure
from
to achieve long-term
that it plays
stability
its proper
of ecosystems.
role in efforts
existence of family
If the
farms
latter
may
is achieved,
be safeguarded.
then the
advocate a complete
However,
banishment
even though
of
we
pesticides
do not
the success from
of
agriculture,
certain biological
we recognize
control
that
techniques
simultaneous is endangered
pesticide application
by
As an element of
in
itsdevelopment
IPM.
for Technical
cooperation
Cooperation
services, the
(GTZ)
German
devoted
Agency
IPM projects
a total
in
of
over
USS20
twenty
million
Third
in 1986
World
to
respective countries.
partner countries
Such projects
to introduce
assist the
solutions into
IPM
effect.
methods
A development
and to put practical
least two
cooperation
partners: project
the Federal
always
Republic
involves
of
at
the counterpart
Germany
country
as the
concerned.
donor country
Other
and
organizations
or the
such
European
as the World
Community
Bank
Projects
often
designed
also participate.
to promote IPM have
*
the
The
following
target
characteristics:
group of such
* Concentration
projects is the
on
smv1!holder,
individual crops or pests
in
is
favor
being
of a
increasingly
focus on crop
abandoned
SA
rotations
key task
and
of
cropping
all such projects
systems,
is to pinpoint
range of
the
existing
real pests
organisms
within the
and
wide
to develop specific strategies
combatting
for
The criterion them,
for the use of chemical pesticides is their comparative
* advantage when considered
An important
alongside all
feature
possible
of
alternatives,
optimum pest
determination
management
of
strategies
"action thresholds"
is the
for pests and diseases and their