Integrated pest management (IPM), developed as a response to steadily increasing pesticide use, combines biological, chemical, physical and crop-specific management strategies and practices to grow healthy crops while minimizing the use of pesticides.

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) this week held a two-day workshop for experts, representatives of universities and other partners from Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Türkiye to teach them more about the approach and share best practices. As a platform for presenting achievements, sharing lessons learned and strengthening regional collaboration on the future of IPM, the workshop set the ambitious goal of encouraging long-term commitment to IPM strategies across the region.

The FAO Plant Production and Protection Division and FAO elearning Academy, together with the European Union, the Swedish Chemicals Agency (KEMI) and the Inter-Organization Programme for the sound Management of Chemica...

For the first time in Central Asia, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has trained health care professionals to treat and respond to pesticide poisoning as part of an ongoing pesticide management and disposal project from FAO and the Global Environment Facility (GEF) in Central Asia and Türkiye.

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) presented the draft National Strategy on Integrated Pest Management (IPM) during the seminar "Integrated Pest Management: Advancing Sustainable Agricultural Practices" in Almaty. This strategy seeks t...

Astana recently hosted an international conference where experts gathered to address the critical issue of agricultural land degradation and pollution in Kazakhstan. The conference yielded a series of recommendations to curb these challenges and mitigate their impac...

In one of the worst industrial accidents in history, more than half a million people were exposed to toxic gases from a pesticide factory in the Indian city of Bhopal on 3 December 1984. According to some estimates, enormous amount of lethal gas leak caused almost 4 000 direct fatalities and left hundreds of thousands more people with acute medical conditions, and more than 16 000 people have died since that time due to medical problems related to the incident in around 15 years.

For more than a year, FAO has been facilitating and supporting the accession process in Tajikistan under an ongoing pesticide management and disposal project from the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the Global Environment Facility (GEF) in Central Asia and Türkiye.

Confiscated pesticides have been gradually accumulating at the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry in Türkiye.

During the ministry’s regular inspections and controls, it occasionally finds and confiscates counterfeit, illegal, obso...

Climate change and extreme weather events can affect crop pests and diseases in several ways. They can result in an expansion of their geographic distribution, increased number of generations, altered synchrony between plants and pests, and reduced effectiveness of ...

Apple production, as old as human history, thrives to this day in Türkiye. While the market is dominated by a few varieties with high market value, the country boasts 460 registered local apple varieties in total, each with its own colour, taste, smell and even shape.

The country is a major producer of apples worldwide, having contributed roughly 5 percent of the 95 million tonnes of apples produced around the globe in 2022. According to the Turkish Statistics Institute, almost 4.8 million tonnes of apples were produced in Türkiye that year, with one in four apples (almost 25 percent) coming from the Isparta province.