This week an Integrated Pest and Disease Management course is taking place. It is offered by COOMAP and Senar Minas/Rural Union of Paraguaçu and has got 12 participants. Producers, their families and staff are being taught during the three days of classes at Dom Bosco sports court and at a farm.
The instructor Rafael Antonio Almeida Dias teaches subjects such as main pests, diseases, natural enemies and control techniques. “The integrated management of pests and diseases is a tool that helps producers in saving agricultural pestcides, through its rational use, and improves farm sustainability. Especially because, through a monitoring spreadsheet, we can learn the infestation index of that pest or disease and check if it is necessary to use chemical control or if it can wait so that environment itself will be able to control it, reducing infestation by itself.”, said Rafael.
COOMAP is always looking forward to enabling its members and their families to be sustainable.
COOMAP, for 65 years cultivating work, harvesting results.
