Fruit Fly Area-Wide Integrated Pest Management in Dragon Fruit in Binh Thuan Province, Viet Nam

AbstractA phenology model based on a time–temperature relationship has been developed for the western cherry fruit fly, Rhagoletis indifferens Curran. The model predicts the occurrence of various biological events such as emergence levels, mating, oviposition, larval appearance, parasite activity, and pupation. These events are predicted as a function of summation of thermal units (TU) starting 1 March. For example, emergence begins at 462, oviposition at 541, hatch at 594, and pupation at 795 TU. The model was validated by actual field observations for a period of 3 years (1976–1978). Extended validation of first emergence was obtained from an entirely different cherry growing area, the Hood River Valley. The model could be a useful tool in integrated pest management program on cherries.

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Potential Adoption of Integrated Pest Management Strategy for Suppression of Mango Fruit Flies in East Africa: An Ex Ante and Ex Post Analysis in Ethiopia and Kenya

Agriculture ◽

10.3390/agriculture10070278 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 10 (7) ◽

pp. 278 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Beatrice W. Muriithi ◽

Nancy G. Gathogo ◽

Gracious M. Diiro ◽

Samira A. Mohamed ◽

Sunday Ekesi

Keyword(s):

Integrated Pest Management ◽

Pest Management ◽

New Technology ◽

Fruit Fly ◽

Fruit Flies ◽

Sub Saharan Africa ◽

Bactrocera Dorsalis ◽

Limited Information ◽

Ex Post ◽

Ex Ante

To sustain agricultural development in Africa, innovative strategies for addressing a myriad of biotic and abiotic constraints facing the agricultural systems must be established. One current biotic stress is the mango infesting fruit flies. In the effort to contain the widely spreading and damaging invasive species of tephritid fruit fly (Bactrocera dorsalis) (Hendel), an area-wide integrated pest management (IPM) program is being promoted in the horticultural sub-sector in sub-Saharan Africa. Such a new technology in which farmers have limited information before commercialization may have diffusion paths that are different from the often-assumed sigmoid (or “s”) shaped curve. We apply the descriptive and econometric analysis of ex ante and ex post integrated fruit fly management used by mango farmers in Kenya and Ethiopia. The results reveal that this technology has a relatively high adoption rate and high prospects for adoption growth in Kenya compared to Ethiopia in the near future.

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Economic analysis of spillover effects of an integrated pest management (IPM) strategy for suppression of mango fruit fly in Kenya

Food Policy ◽

10.1016/j.foodpol.2019.03.006 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 84 ◽

pp. 121-132 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Caroline Githiomi ◽

Beatrice Muriithi ◽

Patrick Irungu ◽

Chris M. Mwungu ◽

Gracious Diiro ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Economic Analysis ◽

Integrated Pest Management ◽

Pest Management ◽

Fruit Fly ◽

Spillover Effects ◽

Mango Fruit ◽

Ipm Strategy

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Grower adoption of an integrated pest management package for management of mango-infesting fruit flies (Diptera: Tephritidae) in Embu, Kenya

International Journal of Tropical Insect Science ◽

10.1017/s1742758415000077 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 35 (02) ◽

pp. 80-89 ◽

Cited By ~ 13

Author(s):

J.K. Korir ◽

H.D. Affognon ◽

C.N. Ritho ◽

W.S. Kingori ◽

P. Irungu ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Integrated Pest Management ◽

Pest Management ◽

Negative Binomial ◽

Smallholder Farmers ◽

Mangifera Indica ◽

Household Head ◽

Household Survey ◽

Negative Binomial Regression ◽

Fruit Fly ◽

Negative Binomial Regression Model

Mango (Mangifera indicaL.) is a well-recognized fruit of economic and nutritional importance to smallholder farmers across Africa. Production and marketing of this fruit is, however, severely hampered by fruit fly infestation that is responsible for enormous fruit losses. In Kenya, control of this pest is primarily dependent on the use of chemical pesticides, a strategy that has been shown to be ineffective. Although the recently introduced fruit fly integrated pest management (IPM) package developed by the International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology (icipe) has proved to be effective against this pest, there is little demonstrable investigation on its adoption to assess the factors likely to influence its acceptance among producers. A household survey was conducted among 805 randomly sampled mango farmers, and a negative binomial regression model was applied to the data in order to identify the factors influencing the intensity of the adoption of the fruit fly IPM package. Results revealed that 58.5% of the sampled mango farmers adopted at least one component of the fruit fly IPM package. Empirical results indicated that education of the household head, number of mature mango trees planted, keeping records of mango enterprise, use of protective clothing during spraying and participation in the IPM training at demonstration sites have a positive influence on the intensity of the adoption of the fruit fly IPM package in Embu, situated in eastern Kenya.

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