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2. At the Regional level: Crop Protection Centers, responsible for giving
technical support to the Provincial Agriculture Agency in providing farmers
with (1) timely information of pest occurrence, (2) appropriate control
methods and (3) judicious pesticide use recommendations. The functions of
die technical staff include (1) carrying out adaptive trials on farmers' fields to
obtain appropriate recommendations for control methods, (2) pest
surveillance to enable them to give timely and proper information, and (3)
inspection of tile storage, distribution, and the use of pesticides. At the
Provincial level, the Crop Protection Division of tile Agriculture Agency is
concerned with the motivation of farmers, dealing with their awareness,
equipment stpport, guidance, and mobilizing crop protection brigades for
emergency or ouibre,'k cases.
3. At Agriculture Dc'evlopmnnt Area level: At this level a field laboratory is
developed which represents a Crop Protection Center's working unit with
the following functions:
a. to analyze data delivered by pest observers.
1). to carry out pest surveillance.
c. to carry out studies on pest occurrence, biology, ecology and its
population dynamics, and
d. to inspect and coordinate pest observers' activities.
4. At Rural Extension Center Working Area level: At this level, which covers
about 6,000-10,000 ha, pest observers ar , responsible for pest observation
and monitoring tile results which are used as information to determine what
precautionary measures are needed.
Through technical cooperation with the Japanese government, the
infrastructure will be considerably strengthened both in terms of hardware and
software.
IPM PROGRAM IMPLEMENTATION
To make the IPM approach more acceptable to farmers and to convince them
of its soundness so that they will be motivated to practice it, some IPM pilot
projects were started from 1979 on in cooperation with FAO (Table 3). The
projects generally lasted 3-5 years and had different activities (Table 4).
Meetings
Meetings were held every season when planting time was about to begin and
involved subject matter specialists, senior extension workers, pest observers,
Sagricultural extension workers, seed growers and farmer leaders. Work plans
were formulated in these meetings and solutions to potential problems were
discussed. Additionally, during the crop season biweekly meetings were held in
which senior extension workers and key farmers discussed solutions to their
problems.