Monthly Archives: July 2009

Yin and yang of rice planthopper management

Posted on July 22, 2009 by moni

by K.L. Heong Insect Ecologist International Rice Research Institute, Los Baños, Philippines When partners of the Rice Planthopper project met at the Inception meeting in November 2008, they designed the project logo (see above).  The background of the logo is … Continue reading →

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Farm survey instruments in ecological engineering – what pretesting reveals

Posted on July 15, 2009 by moni

In Jinhua, Zhejiang province last week, 14 student enumerators pretested our draft baseline survey questionnaire with rice farmers. When the college students returned from the field, they spoke about farmers’ difficulty understanding the term “wild flowers” in the questionnaire. Growing … Continue reading →

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