AID grant to the Pan American Agriculture School for integrated pest management

The grant will fund research to combat a variety of maize, bean, cabbage, and sorghum pests. Additional research, training, and publication activities will be supported in entomology, plant pathology, weed science, and malacology. Funds will be used to help construct the AP Biological Control Center, and to aid research and information dissemination efforts at the EAP Pesticide Use and Efficacy Center. Also, EAP"s Diagnostic Center and Agroecological Inventory Center will receive monies to continue biolological field sample processing and complete a computerized database of organisms in the Hondouran ecosystem. Funded research subjects will include, inter alia: (1) bean pod weevil and corn worm control; (2) cabbage resistance to black head rot; (3) rearing of parasites to control armyworms, striped grass loopers, and diamondback moths; (4) pesticide resistance; (5) low-cost surfactants for weed control; and (6) common bean mosaic virus prevention.