This multi-industry project has a focus on integrated pest management (IPM). Its core activities are to support growers in adopting IPM on farm – improving pest management with minimal pesticide use and a reduction in associated costs – and include workshops, the use of demonstration sites with commercial crops, and the production of materials such as articles, guides and case studies distributed in industry channels. The project is also responsible for training advisors from Australia’s major potato and onion growing regions in IPM. With the threat of tomato potato psyllid, additional funding from the potato industries allows for specific activities related to the pest.

This project has been funded by Hort Innovation, using the research and development levies listed below and contributions from the Australian Government. Hort Innovation is the grower-owned, not-for-profit research and development corporation for Australian horticulture.

• Potato – Processing Fund
• Potato – Fresh Fund
• Onion Fund