ACTIVITIES OF THE SUBGROUP : “INTEGRATED CONTROL OF POME FRUIT DISEASES”

The need for such a meeting grew from the idea that to attain the goal of fully integrated crop protection the Working Group would have to address pathogens as well as pests.
In that time the emphasis of the parent Working Group was on pests and its meetings were attended mainly by entomologists.

It has been considered necessary that in the future the control of the most important fungal diseases on apples and pears should be included to a larger extent in the concept of the integrated pest management.

A subgroup was formed to deal with diseases and it was proposed to hold the first meeting in August 1987 in Lana, Italy.