Status of Greenhouse Insect Pest Biological Control in Korea
Journal
The 3rd APEC Workshop on Sustainable Agricultural Development
Part Of
農業試驗所特刊第109號
Pages
271-280
ISBN
957-01-6962-1
Date Issued
2004-03
Date
2004-03
Author(s)
Hyun Gwan Goh
Yong Heon Kim
Jeong Hwan Kim
Abstract
The greenhouse, a protected ecosystem for crop production, can be infested by a number of pests and their population can rapidly grow because of the ideal environmental conditions. These conditions are also well suited for many natural enemies that can be used in biological control programs. Korea has a large greenhouse areas (82,544 ha) and an insect pest population are also high compared with greenhouses in the western countries. In strawberries and tomatoes, pests are not much of concern since biological control can be easily employed using only several natural enemies. The biological control systems have been developed for insect pests of these crops in Korea through RDA. RDA has developed several mass rearing techniques including rearing of predatory mite, Phytoseiulus persimilis. This technique has been transferred and disseminated to Agricultural Extension Centers and three natural enemy companies. This year Phytoseiulus persimilis was used to control two-spotted spider mite on commercial strawberry planted in about 215 ha, banker plants for aphids control were used on commercial leaf vegetable planted in 34 ha, and E. formosa was used on tomato planted in 1 ha.
Event(s)
The 3rd APEC Workshop on Sustainable Agricultural Development
Subjects
Phytoseiulus persimilis
Encarsia Formosa
Aphidius colemani
biological control
greenhouse
vegetable
Publisher
農業試驗所
Type
conference paper
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