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RECOMMENDATIONS FOR AN EFFICIENT PLANT PROTECTION PROGRAMME IN SWISS APPLE ORCHARDS: CURRENT STATE AND FUTURE DEVELOPMENT OF A DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM
Article number
499_18
Pages
167 – 170
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Abstract
Ecological awareness and economical constraints as well as the public request for a reduction in pesticide use compel the modern apple growers to further optimise their plant protection programmes.
Direct control measures against pests and diseases have to be limited to a minimum.
However, in order to avoid the risk of intolerable yield losses, growers and extension officers depend on reliable predictions of the phenology and the development of pests and diseases and corresponding risk assessments.
Furthermore they need to be informed about the appropriate monitoring tools and adapted control measures.
Since more than forty years the Federal Research Station in Wädenswil offers a warning service which has been constantly expanded and improved according to growers needs.
It is designed as a centralised decision support system facilitating the timing of monitoring, management and control measures as well as the choice of appropriate methods and means.
Today more than thousand apple growers regularly rely on this service which in the sense of indirect subsidies is offered to a very low price.
Direct control measures against pests and diseases have to be limited to a minimum.
However, in order to avoid the risk of intolerable yield losses, growers and extension officers depend on reliable predictions of the phenology and the development of pests and diseases and corresponding risk assessments.
Furthermore they need to be informed about the appropriate monitoring tools and adapted control measures.
Since more than forty years the Federal Research Station in Wädenswil offers a warning service which has been constantly expanded and improved according to growers needs.
It is designed as a centralised decision support system facilitating the timing of monitoring, management and control measures as well as the choice of appropriate methods and means.
Today more than thousand apple growers regularly rely on this service which in the sense of indirect subsidies is offered to a very low price.
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Authors
B. Graf, H. Höhn, W. Siegfried, H.U. Höpli, E. Holliger
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