Best practice for apple and pear production

摘要

As part of its regular revision of technical guidelines, the European section of the International Organisation for Biological Control (IOBC) has published an updated version of its guidance document for apples and pears. Some revisions are to bring IOBC integrated production (IP) guidelines up-to-date with newer pesticide handling requirements under GlobalGAP standards. As usual, the guidelines serve as a framework for setting specific regional or national standards. IOBC's definition of Integrated Fruit Production is: 'the economical production of high quality fruit, giving priority to ecologically safer methods, minimising the undesirable side effects and use of agrochemicals, to enhance the safeguards to the environment and human health'.