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EXPLANATION OF STAKEHOLDER INPUT
The Tennessee Pest Management Information Network serves as an information resource for Tennessee stakeholders concerning current pest management practices, problems and issues. The program leader (currently Darrell Hensley) is informed of current pest management and crop production practices in Tennessee through attendance and participation in national, state and county meetings with growers and agricultural commodity groups when possible, and through contacts with state Extension specialists and grower groups. State specialists, land grant researchers, county Extension personnel, grower groups and growers are encouraged to contact the program leader when pest management activities should be reviewed.
What is a stakeholder ?
Stakeholders may be individuals and/or groups representing certain interests in production systems. A stakeholder may be a state Extension specialist, a grower and/or a grower group.
What is a priority ?
There are three types of priorities. These are Education, Research and Regulatory Priorities. Examples are listed below.
- Education Priority
- Provide training for growers in the area of planting technologies
- Stress early planting to producers to reduce crop loss caused by insects
- Demonstrations to compare yields of newer varieties
- Research Priority
- Investigate the use of new bio-control techniques
- Evaluate and compare returns received from large-bale handling with conventional methods.
- Investigate the use of _____ to control _____ in soybean production.
- Regulatory Priority
- Obtain label for the use of _____ herbicide in cotton production.
- Reduce the 3-day post harvest interval to one-day when using ______ insecticide.
Survey Purpose :
The purpose of this survey is to solicit your help in establishing, for 2006, Tennessee’s priorities that will help in future funding decisions for IPM research and Extension programs managed by the Southern Region IPM Center.
Examples of Priorities:
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This page developed and managed by dhensley@utk.edu,
The University of Tennessee, Department of Entomology and Plant Pathology
This site is supported, in part, with funding from the Southern IPM Center.
Pest Management Centers are sponsored by the United States Department of Agriculture,
Cooperative State Research, Education and Extension Service.
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