Activities of IR-4's Biopesticide and Organic Support Program in Horticultural Pest Management

The IR-4 Project has an annual biopesticide grant program to enable research on new products, label expansion and biopesticide demonstration projects. IR-4 and The Biopesticides and Pollution Prevention Division (BPPD) of EPA have jointly funded and reviewed a cooperative demonstration grant program to reduce the barriers to the adoption of biopesticides. A searchable biopesticide label database has been completed to provide listings of biopesticides for food and ornamental crops based on pest control problems, which was supported by EPA region 2. The IR-4 Project is also involved in assisting with the registration of biopesticides. Recent registrations and research in horticultural crops will be discussed.