better health

 for your staff and plants  

 I.p.m

 Benefits and strategies explained  

Integrated Plant Management

  Create a safer environment for you and your staff

We will teach you how to reduce / minimise chemical use.

Address the issue of insect / disease chemical resistance

We will keep you up to date on the latest techniques in plant health management.

 

Improve plant health and yields. Combat insect resistance to chemicals

Developed by NSW  Agriculture, National Centre for Greenhouse Horticulture

This comprehensive course delivers unit of competency RTF 4023A Promote Plant Health. Amenity Horticulture Training Package ©ANTA.

 

In Australia and many overseas countries, leading edge growers are using the technique of IPM  (Integrated Plant Management).

 

IPM employs a combination of physical cultural biological and maybe at times chemical strategies to keep pest numbers low enough to prevent economic damage to plants from occurring.  Overseas tomato growers, for example, are lucky enough to be able to use the services of the bumble bee to pollinate their flowers and the bees greatly increase the yield of 

tomatoes they get per square metre. Because they get great benefit from the bees the growers have to be careful what chemicals if any they use.

 

Insecticide and fungicide resistance is another reason to consider IPM, overuse of chemicals has led to insects and fungal pathogens becoming resistant to chemicals and the use of biological can help to break the resistance cycle.

 

Quality control systems require that crops be grown to have minimal chemical residues.  Customers like to know the food they consume is safe.

 

We will guide you step by step how to develop strategies that will make IPM a reality for you.  We will include practical hands on exercises.

 

We will keep you up to date with the latest overseas research. 

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May be eligible for Farmbis funding