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National Roadmap for Integrated Pest Management

• National IPM Roadmap

Contents

• Introduction
  
• Keeping a Step Ahead
  
• The IPM Road Map
  
• National IPM Program Goals
  
• IPM Focus Areas
  Production Agriculture * Natural Resources and Recreational Environments * Residential and Public Areas
• Future Direction
  Improve cost-benefit analyses when adopting IPM practices * Reduce potential human health risks from pests and related management strategies * Minimize adverse environmental effects from pests and related management strategies
• Investment in IPM
  Research Needs * Technical Development * Education * Implementation and Adoption of IPM
• Measuring Performance of the National IPM Program
  The adoption of IPM practices improves economic benefits to users * Potential human health risks from pests and the use of pest management practices are reduced * Unreasonable adverse environmental effects from pests and the use of pest management practices are reduced.
• National IPM Program Leadership and Coordination
  
• IPM Strategies
  

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Last updated: 03/10/2009