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(FREE REPORT)Plant health camps/Plant clinics for sustainable crop protection |
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by Dibya Bhatta | 18-04-2020 20:59
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I grew up working in the farm and enjoy working in my home garden. This inclination towards agriculture has led me to choose this subject. The majority of the farmers in my region are small holders where physical and infrastructural barriers limit their expansion. Barriers need to be broken between problems and people and I want to be that bridge between land and lab. I am passionate about photography and plant pathology. Recently I have been engaged in research entitled “Screening of rice genotypes against bacterial leaf blight disease”. Whenever I am on farms I collect plant disease samples, take them to the lab, try to identify and isolate the pathogen, capture them and post them in social media to identify and solve them. I have experience of conducting volunteer plant health camps, field based research and lab based research and have worked with farmers to identify and assist them in solving their pest problem using indigenous traditional knowledge. The almost doubling of grain production and tripling of livestock production has resulted in a global food supply sufficient to provide adequate food for all. We are striving hard to grow more food from limited land employing innovative strategies like resistant crop varieties, pesticides, and better cultural practices. But I believe the battle with plant disease is critical and plant health clinics are the best way to address the growing complexity in the pest-scenario. Knowledge of global crop losses due to pests in developing countries is limited. Few governments have systematic research and monitoring programs. In USA and Canada, plant clinics are operating at various state universities and State Department of Agriculture. Under CABI’s Global Plant Clinic Program (now Plant wise initiative) plant clinics are operating in many Afro-Asian and Latin American countries but often without recognition. Plant clinics should be located in easily accessible area, with a prominent name. I have a dream of creating more well organized multi-specialty plant clinics, with better infrastructure and resources, to boost food security. These clinics will be farmer-centric, with a distinct identity, welcome-counter with overhead electronic-display of scrolling-text showing relevant message on plant-health, waiting/exhibition hall which signage on diseases/pests, a well-equipped library, agro-pharmacy, and laboratories with traditional/new-age diagnostic tools (microscope with monitor-attachment, digital-camera, laminar-flow, ELISA, PCR, LFD etc. Experienced pathologists, entomologists, agronomists/edaphologists will provide diagnosis and prescription for various pests/disorders. The plant clinic will aim to provide the most accurate diagnosis of plant diseases, insects, weeds and mineral deficiency and toxicity, and offer remedial measures. The clinic will require a plant pathologist, who can lead the clinic. The plant pathologist must have appropriate knowledge to diagnose many diseases and disorders visually on the basis of symptoms and signs. Plant disease diagnosis is a knowledge-driven process and in many cases trained eyes may diagnose by visual examination. However, if some lab diagnosis is needed, the farmer may be informed by telephone. As delay in diagnosis could harm the farmer, if the problem appears complex, a mobile clinic will be arranged to inform the grower. The Clinic has the responsibility of strengthening plant-health care by educating farmers on pest diagnosis and management, training/teaching students, producing plant doctors, promoting integrated management to minimize pesticide use and saving biodiversity, monitoring pest/diseases outbreak, issuing pest alerts, organizing plant health camps in farm-fairs, and strengthening mobile clinic during pest-outbreak. Other functions include enhancing farmers’ access to information through toll-free-telephone calls, mobile/internet, providing online-advice, enhancing farmers’ knowledge-bank through innovative training/print/electronic devices, maintaining database and networking, conducting impact-assessment, revitalizing farmer-extension research-government interface for optimizing resources. Creating such clinics, modeled on human clinics, will provide a wide range of plant health services at zero cost. Such a clinic can be important in lifting crop protection and productivity. Let’s collaborate and embrace thoughts and technologies to create one such clinics in Nepal, and revolutionize plant healthcare. It was published in IUPAC website and Tunza ecogeneration also supported my this campaign of volunteer plant health camp. Here is how I worked for volunteer plant health camps during my terms as ecogeneration ambassador and an agri-student! |
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16 Comments
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Posted 04-08-2020 16:07
Greetings dibya dd
I hope you are doing well
Great step.
Thank you so much for your report.
Keep writing
Green cheers
Regards
Asmita Gaire
Posted 04-08-2020 01:31
Hello dee
I hope you are doing well
Thank you so much for this report
Regards
Susmita
Posted 23-04-2020 00:40
Hi Dibya, this is a mentor, Sang Su Lee.
By reading your article, I could feel that your care about plants is extraordinary and special. Plants are beneficial to both environment and people. They provide oxygen as a byproduct of photosynthesis, which is indispensable to living things. In Korea, in fact, there are plant medical doctors. My coworker has told about this job.
Cheers!
Posted 23-04-2020 00:37
Hello Dibya didi!!
Its great to know about plant clinic !!
Hope to know more from you!!
GREEN CHEERS!!
Regards,
Sonika!
Posted 21-04-2020 12:41
Hello Dibya didi
I do hope that you are fine and doing great with your works.
Thank you for your report about Plant health camps/Plant clinics for sustainable crop protection
Green Cheers from Nepal :)
Keep writing great reports.
We are eager to read more reports from you.
Regards,
Kushal Naharki
Posted 21-04-2020 11:22
Thanks
Posted 21-04-2020 07:12
Thanks
Posted 21-04-2020 07:11
Hello Dibya Bhatta, this is mentor Taehyun!
Thank you for the report about the virus related to the plants. I've never heard about the virus which can make the plant to be sick. And it is good to know about your research about the pests and virus can affect the plants. Keep working on your amazing works and research, and I hope you achieve your goals with your research!
Thank you for the report!
Green cheers!
Posted 20-04-2020 22:00
Hello Dibya,
Thanks for your report about plant clinics.
I have seen this type of clinics around my university and this was new for me.
I found this kind of works very useful to farmers as many farmers in Nepal have not access to scientific knowledge and treatments to their crops.
its a great work by an agri student.
green cheers
Posted 20-04-2020 17:13
Hello Dibya dii,
I hope you are doing well
Thank you so much for sharing such an informative report.
Plant clinic is a nice initiative for the local farmers.
Being an agriculture students we should think about initiative like this.
Regards
Sudha
Posted 20-04-2020 12:38
Hello dibya diii,
Thank you for sharing such an informative report.
I really enjoyed going through it and even i saw your video
Plant clinic is a great initiative .
Regards
Heemani
Posted 20-04-2020 12:31
Hello Dibya sis,
It was a great report on plant health. Your ambition to establish a plant clinic is superb. Me as an agri-student must agree on your points. And yes, we are so proud to have an ambassador like you from Agriculture field who is contributing enough to both Ag and environment.
Keep on inspiring sis!!
Green regards,
Asmita.
Posted 20-04-2020 00:29
Thank you didi for sharing
Hope to know more from you
Regards,
Prabha
Posted 19-04-2020 20:24
Thanks
Posted 19-04-2020 11:32
Hello Dibya sis!!
I hope you are fine and doing great.
I really enjoyed going through yours report.
Being an agriculturist, plant clinic conduction is matter of pride and it is must for sustainable crop production.
Keep writing and shining,
Hope to know more from you.
Warm regards,
Meena
GREEN CHEERS
Posted 19-04-2020 00:16