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CRC-CLCPRO interregional Research activity
First Applied field experiment of barrier treatment using Metarhizium acridum
(Biopesticide: NOVACRID®)
EGYPT (February- March 2024)
With the efforts toward introducing modern and innovative approaches that ensure preventive control strategies, promoting the implementation of alternative control methods respect the environment, and reducing the cost of locust control operations, CRC and CLC PRO have conducted a field trial to investigate the efficacy of barrier treatment of the biopesticide Metarhizium acridum on the hoppers of desert locust (Schistocerca gergaria), and to develop a guideline for an optional scale using this eco-friendly and economic efficiency technique.
The activity took place in Abu-Ramad area, southeast cost of Egypt, in collaboration with the General Department for locusts and Agro-Aviation affairs, Egyptian Ministry of Agriculture. Experiment carried out on an area of about 50 hectares contains several hopper bands of 3rd to 5th instars (Figure 1). Preliminary results are promising (Figures 2 and 3), and we are anxious to publish the results after our researchers analyzed the obtained data. In this regard, we would like to thank the French Development Agency (AFD) for funding this activity. For more information please contact: AlSaraiAlalawi, Mamoon (FAORNE), Mamoon.AlSaraiAlalawi@fao.org , or Ebrahim, Abdelmonim (FAORNE) Abdelmonim.Ebrahim@fao.org.
Figure 1. location and design of the experimental plot.
Figure 2. 3rd DL hopper infected by the biopesticide.
Figure 3. Sporulation test shows fungal growth on dead hoppers collected from bands crossed the treated barriers.
- 28, Mar 2024
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