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PPS
Components
New Zealand Australia Pest Management in the Pacific (PMP):
EU
Pacific Plant Protection Service (PPP):
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Biosecurity
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Entomology (in
preparation)
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Plant
Pathology (in preparation)
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Weed
Management (in preparation)
New Zealand Australia Pest Management in the
Pacific (PMP):
FRUIT FLY MANAGEMENT
The
Fruit Fly Project was started in 1994
with funding from AusAID, UNDP and NZODA to effectively control these pests
and increase Pacific Island fruit exports. It operates in all twenty-two SPC
member countries. Demonstrations are held to show
farmers how to use fruit bagging and protein bait spraying methods to
control fruit flies. The project has also developed a way of treating fruits
by heat after harvesting and testing it for fruit fly larvae before
exporting. More details of this project can be seen in: Fruit Fly Project.
For more information please contact Sada
Nand Lal or Nacanieli Waqa.
COOK
ISLANDS-NIUE-TOKELAU
PLANT PROTECTION
The NZODA-funded project looks at plant protection needs in Niue, Tokelau
and the Cook Islands. The
project focuses on their quarantine services in order to safely increase
international and domestic trade in these countries. The three countries have an environment relatively free of pests and
diseases. Vigilant quarantine
services are needed to preserve this favorable status, and hence to protect the economy and
farmers from the risk of exotic pests and diseases entering. Plans are
underway to develop
'user-pays' quarantine services with the governments and upgrade quarantine
buildings. The project is supporting the development of the national quarantine service of
Tokelau. Support is also being provided for the control of rats and rhinoceros
beetles which harm crops in the country. For more information please contact
Jacqui Wright.
INFORMATION
AND EXTENSION SERVICE
PPS Information provides clients in the PICTs, donor and
other stakeholder communities with access to PPS publications, information
on current and forthcoming events and staff travel, and other topics as
arise. Information dissemination is by e-mail mailing lists for Pest
Advisory Leaflets, Pest Alerts and the Pacific Pest Info newsletter, by this
Internet site, by fax and mail and by distribution of CD disks. The
Pacific Pest List Database is also managed by this unit: for a description
of the system, click here, and for downloading
the User's Manual and PLD training materials, click
here. For more information please contact
Makelesi Kora-Gonelevu
or Sarah Pene.
Linkages from extension to policy and research are often tenous resulting in restricted
flows of information on advances in technology and policy to extension
services and, ultimately, to farmers. Extension approaches are often based on
traditional top-down training methods. This component aims to support the
introduction of participatory practices targeting farmer groups and examining
gender issues, and to support enhanced information management harnessing
electronic information and communication technologies. For more information
please contact Stephen Hazelman.
The
Publications unit edits and produces the Pest Advisory
Leaflets, Pest Alerts, the Pacific Pest Info newsletter and other materials as
they arise including posters and videos. Click here for
the Publications page. For more information contact Emil
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PLANT PROTECTION
(MICRONESIA)
Funded by AusAID, this project specifically targets the plant protection
concerns of the Federated States of Micronesia, Palau and the Marshall
Islands. It provides technical support and allows quarantine concerns to be
managed locally. This helps to protect plants against pests in the
Northern Pacific. For more information please contact Konrad
Englberger.
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TARO BEETLE MANAGEMENT
The
Taro Beetle Management Project, funded by the European Union aims to find an
effective, cheap and environmentally safe way to manage the taro beetle
population in the Solomon Islands, Papua New Guinea, Fiji, Kiribati, Vanuatu. Trials have been carried out on the use of
microorganisms to kill the beetles or their larvae. A public awareness
campaign asked people to stop bringing taro from countries that have the
beetle. For more information please contact Sada
Nand.
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TARO PEST PROJECT
The
main purpose of this project is to collate existing information (from formal
publications, grey literature and unpublished data from previous research
projects) into a single package, allowing pest and diseases diagnosis for
taro in the South Pacific. TaroPest
will also contain extension information for each identified pest, plus any
necessary additional information as determined by the respective plant
protection specialist (virologists, entomologists, etc). In a single,
collated form, TaroPest can
become a “one-stop-shop” for quarantine and agricultural officers. Three
primary benefits arise from this approach:
(i) Information
currently with
restricted distribution will be made more widely available;
(ii) By
incorporating a diagnostic component with extension material, users can find
appropriate information even if they did not originally know what was the
problem.
(iii) Because
the core of TaroPest will be built around CD-ROM product, it will be easily and
cheaply updated, particularly if hosted live on a server;
Through the development
of the information package, substantial capacity enhancement will occur.
Knowledge of Lucid based information and diagnostic packages is becoming
wide-spread throughout the Pacific region as more and more specialist products
are being built. However, such packages are being created outside the region
(eg in Australia, New Zealand, North America) and the knowledge on how to build
products of local importance is still largely underdeveloped. By the end of the
project Marjorie Kame (PNG) and the PPS TaroPest technician will have advanced
skills in the development of Lucid products, which they will gain directly
through the project. Further to this, professional staff at SPCPPS, QUT and
NAQIA will be exposed to the building process and will thus be better able to
understand how to make information and diagnostic packages within their own
specialist areas. As an example of this, Mr Mark Ero (PNG NARI), with training
from Amy Carmichael at QUT, is now using Lucid to build working keys to pest
species of Oribius as part of
ACIAR project CS2/2001/032.
The approach being taken
in this project is appropriate to the requirements of the Pacific region. Lack
of collections and diagnostic skills means that support tools, such as we
propose, are urgently needed for quarantine and field use.
EU Plant Protection Service:
PLANT PROTECTION IN THE PACIFIC (PPP)
Funded by the European Development Fund, the PPPS project supports
the plant protection and quarantine departments of eight Pacific ACP states
and three OCT territories. The programme can provide technical advice, training,
equipment, biocontrol, identification and information services.
ACP: Countries in Africa, the Caribbean and the Pacific that
are signatories to the Lome convention. There are eight ACP countries in the
Pacific: Fiji, Kiribati, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Tonga, Tuvalu,
Vanuatu and Western Samoa.
OCT: Overseas Countries and Territories: Countries in a
special relationship to EU member states. In the Pacific region they include
French Polynesia, New Caledonia, Pitcairn and Wallis and Futuna
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BIOSECURITY
(QUARANTINE)
Biosecurity is a new component within the Plant Protection Service of the SPC
funded by the European Union under the Plant Protection in the Pacific Project
(PPP). Its main objective is to support the establishment of effective and
sustainable quarantine services in the region. The component will be working
closely with the national quarantine services of the PICTs. It focuses on the
areas of compliance with international phytosanitary standards, capacity
building, strengthening and harmonisation of quarantine laws, emergency
response planning for pest outbreaks, and increasing awareness of quarantine
requirements amongst traders and the traveling public. For more information
contact Sidney Suma.
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For further information
on any of these projects please contact:
Plant Protection Service,
Secretariat of the Pacific Community,
Private Mail Bag,
Suva, Fiji Islands.
Tel : (679) 370733
Fax: (679) 370021
or Email: pps@spc.int
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