South AfricaSmall farmer feeding dairy cattle. The cattle graze on communal land but, at present, there are too many cattle in the area and agronomists from the Ministry of Agriculture are encouraging farmers to...

South AfricaIndigenous goats at the Agricultural Research Council, Animal Improvement Institute (ARC-AII). FAO is working with the Institute to establish a southern African network of research centres to increase...

South AfricaMaureen Chisale, who was voted woman farmer of the year for Gauteng Province, tending to her spinach plants. She started farming three years ago, initially just growing maize and she now grows cabbage...

South AfricaSmall farmer feeding dairy cattle. The cattle graze on communal land but, at present, there are too many cattle in the area and agronomists from the Ministry of Agriculture are encouraging farmers to...

South AfricaFeeding indigenous Naked Neck hens at the Agricultural Research Council, Animal Nutrition and Animal Products Institute (ARC-ANPI). The Institute is responsible for research, development and technolog...

South AfricaMaureen Chisale, who was voted woman farmer of the year for Gauteng Province, selling fertilizer in a shop and advising other farmers. - - General: General. The Food and Agriculture Organization of th...

South AfricaSmall farmer feeding dairy cattle. The cattle graze on communal land but, at present, there are too many cattle in the area and agronomists from the Ministry of Agriculture are encouraging farmers to...

CambodiaFarmers leaving the weekly meeting carrying insect zoos which they will observe and maintain at home until the next meeting. Reproduction rates and destruction of pests can then be observed. - - Speci...

CambodiaInspecting pests and predators and introducing them to "insect zoos" so that reproduction rates and destruction of pests can be observed. Farmers' Field School in Cambodia. - - Special Programme for F...

CambodiaCollecting insect specimens, pests and predators. - - Programme for Food Security: SPFP/CMB/6701. Eighty percent of the Cambodian population is dependent on subsistence farming with rice as the main a...

CambodiaFacilitator at farmer field school meeting. - - Special Programme for Food Security (SPFS): SPFP/CMB/6701. Eighty percent of the Cambodian population is dependent on subsistence farming with rice as t...

Lao People's Democratic RepublicIntegrated pest management training at a farmers' field school: collecting pests in the field. - - General: General. FAO's inter-country programme for integrated pest management (IPM) in vegetables in...

Lao People's Democratic RepublicIntegrated pest management training at a farmers'field school: drawing the pests that have been collected after field study. This is done to ensure that the farmers are able to identify and memorize n...

Lao People's Democratic RepublicIntegrated pest management training at a farmers' field school: collecting pest specimens in the field. The specimens are then taken to the school and drawn by farmer groups. As illiteracy is high in...

SudanFarmers examining yields of wheat. Reduction of wheat spraying against aphids from 2 to 0.5 in recent years did not reduce yields. - - Development and Application of Integrated Pest Management (vegeta...

SudanAfter field practicals, Farmers are discussing new cultural practices demonstrated on the IPM field in the Farmer Field School in Sudan. - - Development and application of Integrated Pest Management (...

Viet NamFarmer and woman trainer checking plants for pests and their natural predators which have been released into the rice fields as part of the programmeÂ?experimentation. - - Integrated Pest Management....

NicaraguaFAO technician checking maize plants for pests. - - System of diffusion of Technology for Agricultural Development: NIC/85/028. In this project technicians of the UN Food and Agriculture Organization...

IndonesiaAgroecosystems. In order to utilize only the necessary minimum of pesticides, teams of farmers are trained in basic IPM techniques. They learn to identify and count insects and to draw graphic represe...

IndonesiaAgroecosystems. In order to utilize only the necessary minimum of pesticides, teams of farmers are trained in basic IPM techniques. They learn to identify and count insects and to draw graphic represe...

IndonesiaReproduction rate of predatory insects on rice plants is monitored in plastic tents at IPM research and training site. - - Training and Development of Integrated Pest Management in Rice-Based Cropping...

ChinaCoccinellid (ladybug family) eating a brown planthopper. When insecticides kill natural predators, the brown planthopper population can reach 1,000 pests per clump of rice. - - General: General.

MoroccoAdult locusts flying over wheat fields in the foothills of the Anti Atlas mountains near Rich. - - Desert Locust Control Campaign in North-West Africa. In 1988 the Maghreb countries of north-west Afri...

PhilippinesRICE PEST CONTROL -- Women farmers in Palawau are interviewed by a woman extension worker regarding their use of indigenous plants as pest controls, as part of an FAO IPM field training course. In 198...

IndiaA scientist checks new hybrids in the orchid laboratory raised by tissue culture with FAO-provided facilities. Several promising hybrids have been developed and are being multiplied. Anthurium around...

MaliA farmer holds what is left of his millet crop that had been devoured by Senegalese grasshoppers. - - Grasshopper Control Campaign in the Sahel. The 1985 rains, breaking the worst drought in a decade...

PhilippinesThe Chrysopid Lorra is a biological predator of aphids. - - General: General.

MaliA tiny Senegalese grasshopper, one of millions that descended upon ripening millet and sorghum plants, in some cases devouring total crop areas. - - Grasshopper Control Campaign in the Sahel. The 1985...

NigeriaCassava (manioc) plants are under observation at the International Institute for Tropical Agriculture at Ibadan, protected from mealy bugs and green spider mites by ventilated bags, as part of a biolo...

MaliA Cavalaipus cymleiferus, one of several grasshopper species that threatened thousands of food crops in the Sahel. Its young hoppers attack germinating cereal crops. - - Grasshopper Control Campaign i...

BrazilAn FAO expert (centre) explaining air survey techniques to trainees attending a course on the control of locusts and grasshoppers in the Central West region. - - Locust and Grasshopper Control. In 198...

MaliWomen weave mats in the village of Durukini, north of Nara, one of many villages in the Sahel facing catastrophic food losses from the grasshopper infestation. - - Grasshopper Control Campaign in the...

MaliA praying mantis on a millet head waits to feed on some of the pests attaching the plants, while ground scouts survey the damage done to the crop. - - Grasshopper Control Campaign in the Sahel. The 19...

MaliA USAID consultant, part of the ground team observation unit, receives the latest report on local wind conditions and grasshopper sightings from a ground observer. - - Grasshopper Control Campaign in...

MaliAn Anacridum melanorhodon or "tree locust", one of several pests that threatened thousands of food crops in the Sahel. - - Grasshopper Control Campaign in the Sahel. The 1985 rains, breaking the worst...

MexicoA scientist dissects an orange infested with med flies that has been collected for study at the Med Fly Rearing and Sterilization Laboratory in Metapa. - - Mediterranean Fruit Fly Eradication Programm...

ChinaWheat aphids and the damage they cause are examined at the County Agro-technological Extension Centre at Shuangliu, Sichuan Province. - - General: General. China's increased economic activity in recen...

GuatemalaTrees attacked by Dendroctonus have been felled at the an Juan Ixcoy forest cooperative in the department of Huehuetango - - Forestry Cooperatives. FAO through its Technical Cooperation Programme (TC...

NicaraguaTrained field workers from the Ministry of Agriculture check for further signs of coffee leaf rust in the affected area of Jinotepe. Suspected leaves are sent to a laboratory in Managua for analysis....

SudanSpraying a mango tree attacked by termites, using a motorised knapsack sprayer, at the Government plantation of the El Bagaier Scheme in Gezira province, 25 miles south of Khartoum. - - Protection of...

ChinaSpraying a rice field with powdered pesticide. - - General: General.

ChadNot all African birds are pests. Some such as these egrets are very beneficial to farmers since their diet includes grasshopper, locusts, caterpillars and other noxious insects. Two egret species are...

ChadThe yellow weavers or "gendarmes? as they are called in Francophone Africa. Their agility in manipulating green grass to make nests also unfortunately has helped them to learn to strip the leaves off...

EthiopiaCamels of the locust ground control team, loaded with BHC dust and dusters crossing the River Barca at Agordat. The ground control unit has eight camels and 21 men; they go out for up to a fortnight a...

EthiopiaDLCO-EA field worker dust with BHC. - - General: General.