INTEGRATED PEST MANAGEMENT (IPM) IN BELGIUM 1991

Belgian fruit growers first began to adopt integrated pest management methods (IPM) on apples and pears in 1987. IPM techniques have now been taken up by the majority of pear producers but only a small proportion of the apple producers (Table 1).

Table 1:	Areas of land and numbers of growers using IPM
	techniques in Belgium

Belgium

Flanders

Wallonia

Total area of apples and	16500	15000	IPM	%	1500	IPM	%
pears (ha)
Apple area (ha)	13000	12000	570	5	1500	130	13
Pear area (ha)	3500	3000	2940	98	500	390	98
No. of Growers	2110	2000	160	8	110	43	40

In pear culture almost all growers use selective insecticides whilst 700 ha of apples are now provided with Typhlodromus pyri (predatory mites). In contrast, some apple growers use selective insecticides but no Typhlodromids. The fruit growers who use IPM are dispersed throughout Belgium.
Integrated fruit production (IFP) is being tested on a small scale.

II International Symposium on Integrated Fruit Production

C. de Schaetzen

https://doi.org/10.17660/ActaHortic.1993.347.54