Roguing for control of Peanut bud necrosis virus disease in tomato

The Integrated Pest Management Collaborative Research Support Program (IPM CRSP), funded by USAID, has been managed by Virginia Tech since 1993 through a consortium of U.S. universities including Penn State University, Ohio State University, Clemson University, Virginia State University, Michigan State University, Washington State University, University of California-Davis, University of Georgia, North Carolina State University, University of Florida, and Kansas State University. It currently operates in 17 countries — Senegal, Mali, Ghana, Ethiopia, Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, India, Nepal, Bangladesh, Tajikistan, Cambodia, Philippines, Indonesia, Guatemala, Honduras, and Ecuador — in six different regions of the tropical world.

The program has six regional and five cross cutting projects. Its regional projects concentrate on developing and implementing IPM packages for high value vegetable crops, and the cross cutting projects address problems that occur in all the regions such as virus diseases, gender, diagnostics, invasive species, and impact assessment. In early years, the program concentrated on institutionalization, and it currently addresses regionalization and globalization of developed through regional planning meetings, inter-regional workshops, and international symposia.