What is it about?
This article reviews the history of the development of modern apple integrated pest management in New Zealand, since the 1960s.
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Why is it important?
The development of scientific approaches can be shared between crops and countries, and this program has supported the emergence of New Zealand as the world's best apple producer and exporter (to 70 countries), with greatly reduced reliance on insecticides. Market access is supported by sex pheromone technologies and other knowledge-intensive approaches.
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Achieving market access of fresh apple exports to 70 countries while reducing reliance on insecticides, with demonstrably reduced environmental impacts at the whole of industry level is quite a world-leading story.
Professor David Maxwell Suckling
University of Auckland
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This page is a summary of: Past, Present, and Future of Integrated Control of Apple Pests: The New Zealand Experience, Annual Review of Entomology, January 2017, Annual Reviews,
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-ento-031616-035626.
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