Northeastern IPM Center
News from West Virginia

A cost share program to support IPM in tree fruits was approved the EQIP program in West Virginia. It will be implemented through two of the Conservation Districts (Potomac and Eastern Panhandle) which include Hampshire, Berkeley, Jefferson, and Morgan Counties where the commercial growers are located in West Virginia. The program will be made available to the growers during the 2007 growing season.

West Virginia University College of Agriculture hired an entomologist, Dr. Yong-Lak Park who joined the Department of Plant and Soil Sciences in Fall 2006. Prior to this, Dr. Park was based at UC-Riverside where he did post-doctoral work related to IPM and geo-spatial technology. http://wvutoday.wvu.edu/news/page/3379/

IPM coordinator, Rakesh Chandran, recently visited Guyana on an assignment through Washington D.C.- based Partners of the Americas to assist vegetable growers in weed management. http://wvutoday.wvu.edu/news/page/4658/



For more information contact Rakesh Chandran
Email: RSChandran@mail.wvu.edu

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