The FAO Regional Vegetable IPM Programme was launched in Yunnan Province, P. R. China, in January 2003. Yunnan had previously not been involved in any IPM-FFS activities and thus an FFS training program had to be set up from the beginning. The Programme concentrated its efforts initially on capacity building for IPM FFS training in eight major vegetable growing prefectures in Yunnan Province and on three types of vegetable crops (tomato, Chinese cabbage and sugar pea). With the implementation of the programme, the vegetable crops covered in FFS have been extended to lettuce, broccoli, capsicum, pumpkin, squash, cauliflower, garlic, cucumber, potato, watermelon and cherry tomato etc.

The FAO Regional Vegetable IPM Programme provided some technical assistance to government-supported vegetable IPM training activities in other provinces (Sichuan, Shandong, Guangxi, Beijing, Shandong, Hebei and Shanghai) during this period. Whereas Guangxi province is officially part of the Greater Mekong Subregion, FAO has so far not actively supported IPM-FFS work in that province. The programme also provided assistance to other international funded projects such as the World Bank-funded Anning Valley Project in Panzhihua and Liangshan, Sichuan province, GTZ-funded “Environmental Strategies of Intensive Agriculture in the North of China” Project and the CIDA-funded “Agriculture and Agri-food” Project in Western China .

During the 2003-06 period, the FAO programme contributed about US$ 250,000 for supporting training activities in Yunnan Province. National and local governments have provided US$ 49,382 to support local vegetable FFS activities.

The National IPM Programme is led by the National Agriculture-Technical Extension and Service Centre, Ministry of Agriculture (NATESC, MOA) in Beijing which co-ordinates the IPM activities in the country.

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