IMPLICATIONS OF CONCEPT IPM

IPM concept emerged as a corrective to the errors in the pest control efforts. Since the discovery of synthetic pesticides in the 1940s (Muller and Borger, 1946), very intensive use of pesticides for controlling pests. Intensive use of pesticides is has given contributing to improvements in agricultural production, but also have a negative impact, namely causing resistant and resurjen several types of pests, not the target of deadly organisms, including natural enemies of pests, and pesticide residues which are harmful to human and animal health. IPM concepts articulated in the FAO panel of experts in Rome in 1965 (FAO 1966). IPM is a pest management system based on an understanding of the population dynamics of the pest species and the environment, using a range of compatible control techniques to keep pest populations below the threshold that causes economic damage valued. Several types of pests can only be controlled by either blend component control techniques.

Environmental sustainability gets the attention of the world leaders in the World Food Summit organized by FAO in Rome, Italy, from 13-17 November 1996. Declaration of the New Green Revolution (the New Green Revolution) notes that accompanied its implementation on marginal land must paying attention to the learning environment with the first Green Revolution (FAO 1996). Asian Development Bank to support the idea of ??the New Green Revolution by adding the word Greener (ADB 2000). How imply that the Greener Green Revolution?

Long before the World Food Summit organized, scientists began to notice the effects of excessive use of pesticides and unsafe to human health. IPM concept is offered as a method of pest control (pest) which is cheaper and safer. IPM strategy requires a combination of knowledge that controls the strategic and applied research to investigate factors that affect ecological pest, design, and evaluate new control methods (IRRI 1993). IPM implementation also depends on the participation of farmers and government policy. Therefore, the application of IPM conducted by IPM Field School (FFS-IPM).