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Please see herebelow a webinar announcement from the University of Western Australia on The challenge of managing fall armyworm: a new cross-industry pest in Western Australia by Prof Helen Spafford, Senior Research Scientist, Western Australia Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development.

Fall armyworm has been attacking crops in Africa and elsewhere. Some research has shown that Conservation Agriculture can contribute towards reducing or minimizing the damage.

Western Australia's agriculture is mostly based on no-till farming.

Apologies for any cross-posting.

Amir Kassam

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Global CA-CoP

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URL: http://www.fao.org/conservation-agriculture

 

Conservation Agriculture is an ecosystem approach to regenerative sustainable agriculture and land management based on the practical application of context-specific and locally adapted three interlinked principles of: (i) Continuous no or minimum mechanical soil disturbance (no-till seeding/planting and weeding, and minimum soil disturbance with all other farm operations including harvesting);  (ii) permanent maintenance of soil mulch cover (crop biomass, stubble and cover crops); and (iii) diversification of cropping system (economically, environmentally and socially adapted rotations and/or sequences and/or associations involving annuals and/or perennials, including legumes and cover crops), along with other complementary good agricultural production and land management practices.

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Date: Fri, 24 Jul 2020 at 09:34
Subject: Webinar | Thu 30 July @ 4pm | Adj Assoc/Prof Helen Spafford
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The UWA Institute of Agriculture
Special Webinar:

The challenge of managing fall armyworm: a new cross-industry pest in Western Australia
By Adjunct Assoc/Prof Helen Spafford,
Senior Research Scientist, Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development

In the last four years fall armyworm has been found establishing all over the world and it has been problematic to manage.
With a large host range and high dispersal capability, when the fall armyworm invaded Australia in January 2020 it was declared un-eradicable. 
This insect reportedly feeds on over 350 plant species, many of them crop plants. In large numbers the larvae can devastate a crop, seemingly overnight.
With a propensity to develop resistance to insecticides, fall armyworm continues to be a challenge for management in its native range and now as a global pest that affects multiple production industries.  
Western Australia is fall armyworm’s newest home.  We will need some creative and innovative thinking to manage this challenging pest.

About Dr Helen Spafford
Dr Helen Spafford is Senior Research Scientist at the WA Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development based in Kununurra, Western Australia. She also leads the Insect and Disease Team within the Horticulture Directorate and leads the Department's response to the fall armyworm incursion.
As an applied entomologist, Dr Spafford has worked in areas of weed and insect biological control, pest management, insect ecology and behaviour on pests of broadacre agriculture, horticulture and human health in temperate, Mediterranean and subtropical systems.
In addition to her commitment to food security through effective pest management, Dr Spafford is passionate about education, mentoring and evidence-based decision making.

Event information
Date: Thursday 30 July 2020
Time: 16:00 - 17:00
Format: Zoom Webinar
Queries: 6488 4717 | [log in to unmask]
   
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