Monday, 15 November 2004 - 1:39 PM
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Role of stakeholders in pest resistance management: Industry’s perspective on insect resistance management and its implementation

Caydee Savinelli, caydee.savinelli@syngenta.com, Syngenta Crop Protection, P.O. Box 18300, Greensboro, Greensboro, NC, Graham P. Head, graham.p.head@monsanto.com, ABSTC/Monsanto Company, 700 Chesterfield Pkwy N, St. Louis, MO, and Gary D. Thompson, gdthompson@dow.com, Dow AgroSciences, 9330 Zionsville Rd, Indianapolis, IN.

Pest resistance management is a serious issue for the agricultural chemical industry. The development of pest resistance to a company’s product poses significant problems, in terms of poor product perception in the eyes of the customers, loss of tools for the growers and revenue loss for the company. The decrease in product use is a significant motivation for the industry to engage in the issue of pest management. Companies are aware of the consequences of resistance development and it is imperative that they take the lead in development of strategies that will manages resistance both for new product development and current product maintenance, with the goal of sustaining product use in a resistance management framework. The essence of the resistance management programs needs to flexible in nature to fit the local conditions.


Keywords: insecticide resistance management

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