Past Experiences, Current Status and Plans for the Fruit Fly IPM for Smallholder Vegetable and Fruit Growers in Thaila

1. Past Experiences, Current Status and Plans for the Fruit Fly IPM for Smallholder Vegetable and Fruit Growers in Thailand by Watchreeporn Orankanok Department of Agricultural Extension The Inception Workshopfor the Area-wide Asian Fruit Fly IPM 31 Aug. – 3 Sept. 2010 AIT, Pathumthani, Thailand.

2. HISTORY of MODERN FRUIT FLY CONTROL Royal Ang Khang Research Station Doi Ang Khang Mountain 1982 Office of Atomics for Peace-OAP Embarked SIT

3. 1997 4% Percentage of Infestation 1982 54.7% 1987 DoAE 1991

4. 2001 AREA-WIDE INTEGRATED CONTROL OF FRUIT FLIES THAILAND

5. RATCHABURI 13 O 35’ N O 99 O 83’ EO 34.4 km2 PHICHIT 16 O 43’ N O 100 O 51’ E O 36.7 km2

6. PROJECT ACTIVITY COMPONENTS

7. OBJECTIVE To improve quality of fresh fruit through environment-friendly techniques STRATEGIES Area-wide fruit flies suppression using integrated Management

8. ORIENTAL FRUIT FLY GUAVA FRUIT FLY Bactrocera dorsalis Bactrocera correcta Two main species of FF pest

9. PROJECT ACTIVITY COMPONENTS • Find Out Areas of interest • Staff Training • Motivate Stake Holder • Characterize areas of Interest • Stake Holder Training • Surveilance • Suppression • Public relation • Monitoring & Evaluation R&D

10. Cost of SIT USD 100 - 120 / 1 million sterile pupae Operation cost + SIT 125 Thai Baht or ~ USD 4.17 / 1 Rai / year USD 26.04 / 1 hectare / year

11. FUTURE How to put more effort and educate farmers under condition of budget limitation. “Community Plant Pest management Center” is the main activity, to develop farmers to be “Pests Management Professional in IPM” reduce damage to farmers crops, encourage less investment and to enhance participation community in the project.

12. CONCLUSIONS The basic requirements for scaling up the project from a pilot level to a national wide project is not only complex procedure of incorporating new and better technologies but also convincing people involve to support a programme is often a huge challenge.