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Funding Program:
Regional IPM Grants (S-RIPM) |
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Project Title:
Management and Retrieval Systems for Extending IPM Information in Southeastern US |
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Lead State: NC Lead Organization: North Carolina State University |
| Extension Funding: $49,164 |
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Start Date: Jul-01-2006 End Date: Jun-30-2008 |
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Summary:
The current extension system for providing production recommendations is somewhat tedious and static. For example, the Southeastern Vegetable Extension Working Group, a coalition of specialists from 5 or more Southern land grant Universities, meets annually to integrate up-to-date IPM recommendations for publication into the Southeastern Vegetable Crop Guidelines. The guidelines are distributed to agents, vegetable growers, agchem dealers and other pest management professionals throughout the region. The specialists collate hard copies of the pesticide labels and manually write, or edit recommendations, including corrections of many editorial problems in previous editions. The edits are then sent to an editing team that transfers the information into tables for publishing in hard copy and PDF format. The tables generated are used throughout the region for the coming year, in a static form. The whole process is tedious, subject to errors and does not provide a flexible framework. We envision developing database driven production recommendations that can be web/wireless accessible, pest specific, and virtually real time in addition to hard copy publications that emanate from the databases developed. This vision arises from the National Roadmap for IPM goals to develop new delivery methods designed to expand the options for IPM implementation . The core of such a vision must start with the development of a database driven system for pesticide recommendations. In this proposal we seek support to develop a web-based information management and retrieval system for fungicide recommendations for vegetable crops in the Southeastern production regions, as a starting point. Once developed, the database will be accessible to the responsible extension specialists via a password protected website for timely updates and clientele will be able to retrieve information via webpages that are displayed on a desktop PC or mobile device (e.g. pocket PC, cell phone). We propose to develop the software infrastructure such that webpages will be dynamically generated based on user queries and/or hyperlinks. Hyperlinks could include IPM-based information on e.g. resistance management or proper pest ID. The database will be designed to allow user input manually and to allow for direct import from pesticide label databases (that will be available in the foreseeable future) to enable seamless transfer of information direct from the label generators, filtered by our specialists, and integrated into our SE-specific database. Success in this extension effort will have broad regional impact, be adaptable for insect and weed recommendations, and be a fulcrum for development of future IPM delivery tools.
Objectives: The objective of this proposal is to develop, implement and validate a web-based information management and retrieval system for fungicide recommendations for vegetable crops in the Southeastern production regions. |
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