Completed project
Integration of crop and soil insect management in sweetpotato (VG09052)
Publication date: June 1, 2014
Delivery Partner: Australian Sweetpotato Growers
The sweetpotato industry faces a number of biosecurity challenges due to the climate of major production regions, year-round production and tendency for volunteer growth after harvest. Pests are able to have rapid and continuous pest cycles, putting pressure on pesticide options for control.
This project, which ran from 2010 to 2013, set out to develop production systems for sweetpotato growers that will extend the working life of current crop protectants. In particular, growers need better strategies to control root knot nematode, sweetpotato weevil and wireworm.
The extensive work program included…
The project ran in parallel with an industry-wide pest management extension development program arming growers with the knowledge necessary to implement whole-of-crop integrated management strategies and an extensive pest management research investigation into new pest management technology.
Major achievements included…
This project was a strategic levy investment in the Hort Innovation Vegetable Fund
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