Advance in integrated pest management of crops in China
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Key Words：agricultural insect pests, IPM, research progress
Abstract： Integrated pest management (IPM) in crops is an important strategy fo r insect pest control, which plays an important role for sustainable agriculture . I n order to meet the demand of crop production in China, Chinese government launc hes a series of scientific programs for insect pest researches during 2006-2010 , including 973 Project, 863 Project, the State Key Project and others. Based on these projects, China has established a national and province network which cons ists of scientist teams and special facilities for insect pest researches in uni versities and institutes. And many achievements on pest control such as methods and technologies on monitoring and forecasting for outbreaks of major pest insec ts, ecological management for insect population, biological control, chemical co ntrol, and the commercial use of transgenic insectresistant crops, as well as I PM systems in cotton, rice, corn, wheat, vegetables and other crops, have been e stablished in recent years.
The current progress in modern sciences such as biological engineering and infor
mation technology is bring a new revolution for agriculture science, which is pu shing IPM theory forward and giving a new opportunity for IPM application worldw ide.
Deployment of GPS, GIS and computer science in pest management is taking pe st forecasting work to a high level. Commercialization of insectresistant gene t ically modified crops is presenting a great potential for regional control of in sect pests. The studies on new theory and technology of crop IPM for resolving t he pest problems derived from the changes of crop planting structures and globe climate will become an important area in the coming years.