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Producer Profit Replaces Profligate Pesticide Use
Vientiane Times, 10 April 2009

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Regional Meeting on Community Education forPesticide Risk Reduction Vietnam, 4-5 June 2010 BARI Organizes Workshop on Mass Rearing and Utilization of Earwigs as a Biological Control Agent Joydevpur, Bangladesh, 20-22 April 2010 Vietnamese IPM farmers reap benefit from Minimum Tillage Potatoes in Rice-based Farming Systems , Thai Binh, Vietnam, 12 March 2010 ToT Field Day and Stakeholders’ Meeting of Pesticide Risk Reduction Programme under One UN Plan-2 Held in Thai Binh, Vietnam on 11 March 2010 Diadegma Semiclausum Continues to Do Its Work in Doi Angkhang Chiangmai, Thailand, January 2010 Regional Meeting on Community Education for Pesticide Risk Reduction Guilin, Guangxi, China PR, 19-23 October 2009 Capacity Building and Policy Reform for Pesticide Risk Reduction in Vietnam Under One UN-2 Initiative Vietnam, September 2009 APPPC Holds 26th Session in Delhi 31 August-4 September 2009 Cambodia Study Tour to Thailand on Organic Chilli Production and Marketing Thailand, 25-29 August 2009 Vietnam’s PPD Holds National Workshops on Strengthening the National Food Safety Programme through Pesticide Risk Reduction and Safe Vegetable Production Vietnam, 31 July 2009 Cambodia National IPM Programme Collaboration with FAO GCP/RAS/217/IFA on Organic Chilli Production and Marketing Cambodia, 7 July 2009 Vietnam National IPM Programme and SEARICE hold Project Self-Assessment and National Consolidation Workshop Hanoi, Vietnam, June 19, 2009 Asia Participation in IPM Week Rome, 25-29 May 2009 Vietnam National IPM Programme and CGFED Organize “Workshop on Potential Impacts of Pesticide Use in Agricultural Production to Health of Vietnamese Women, Food Security and Food Safety" Hanoi, 8 May 2009 Iran IPM Team Study Tour to Vietnam 7-14 May 2009 Producer Profit Replaces Profligate Pesticide Use Vientiane Times, 10 April 2009 Final Evaluation Review of FAO Regional Vegetable IPM Programme (GCP/RAS/209/NOR), 25 February 2009 Thailand’s Royal Project Foundation (RPF) Supports Biocontrol and Market Access for IPM Farmers in Petchabun, January 2009 Cambodia MAFF Minister Visits IPM Farmers, 28 December 2008 Workshop on Opportunities and Challenges for Promotion and Sustainable Production and Protection of the Potato Crop in Vietnam and elsewhere in Asia Dalat, Vietnam, 25-28 November 2008 Bi-Annual Regional Meeting for the FAO Vegetable IPM Programme Bangkok, Thailand, 12-14 November 2008