Status of IPM, pesticide use and misuse, and information transfer in horticultural crops in Albania, Ukraine and Moldova: participatory appraisal and baseline survey for tomato, cucumber, grape and apple

摘要

The Integrated Pest Management Collaborative Research Support Program (IPM CRSP) is an international IPM effort funded by USAID and managed by Virginia Tech. The goal is to develop appropriate IPM technology and foster its implementation in various developing countries and transitional economies. Eastern Europe is one of several CRSP regional projects around the globe. In the first phase of the Eastern European regional project, a multidisciplinary team focused on a single crop, olive, in Albania (Pfeiffer et al., 2005). A second phase of the IPM CSRSP has now been initiated. In the new phase, the Eastern European regional project has expanded both geographically and agriculturally. The countries involved are now Albania, Ukraine and Moldova. The research focus now involves tomato, cucumber, grape and apple, crops that are common to all three countries.