Survey on Implementation Conditions of Integrated Pest Management (IPM) in Europe

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1 Creation date Last update date User name FIpest2013 Case Number Invitation Ref. Status Language Survey on Implementation Conditions of Integrated Pest Management (IPM) in Europe Meta Informations N en 1. User data 1.1. Please choose Member State: Finland 1.2. Name of Competent Authority responsible for filling in the survey: Finnish Safety and Chemicals Agency Tukes 2.1. Have you designated Competent Authorities responsible for planning, governance and coordination of Integrated Pest Management (IPM)? 2.2. Please describe briefly and/or include reference to any available documents or annexes you have already provided/are going to provide Which specific programmes on IPM have you developed? (more than 1 answer Please describe the sectors targeted and how many (e.g. orchards) Which specific programmes on IPM do you plan to develop? (more than 1 answer Please describe the sectors targeted and for when they are planned. 2. Planning, governance and coordination Finnish Safety and Chemicals agency coordinates the National Action Plan on the sustainable use of pesticides. IPM is a part of the NAP. We have no national programmes on IPM, but IPM is a part of the NAP (Section 4.10). ne We have no national programmes on IPM, but some shortterm research and demonstration projects, which are regional and/or crop-specific. We have a national decree on general principles of IPM, setting general borderlines on IPM. Crop/sector specific projects e.g. on cereals and horticulture in the open. Project fundings mainly for In which areas have you planned research on IPM to promote its development? (more than 1 answer Pest monitoring and/or decision support systems

2 If possible, please provide a short summary of the programs. We have no national research programmes, which would define the research visions on IPM. MTT Agrifood Researh Finland is surveying crop-specific research information related to IPM (IPM matrix). The result will show information gaps within IPM research and after that, IPM research will be focused on research areas, which need more information. Surveying started in 2013 and will continue through IPM matrix is a joint project of three different IPM projects. Finland participates also in the C-IPM EraNet project. Pest monitoring and/or decision support systems: Plant Protection Society KSS ry and MTT Agrifood Research Finland are developing an internet knowledge portal on IPM (IPM tietoalusta). Work started in Portal will provide user interfaces for professional users, advisors, authorities etc. Information will be gathered interactively from different user groups. Portal will serve as a decision support system for professional users, giving information on pests, threshold values and different control stategies etc. The project is applying for money at the moment In which areas do you intend to plan research on IPM to promote its development? (more than 1 answer Please describe others. We will have research projects on IPM, but the goal setting is dependent on funding. EraNet C-IPM has started and it will clarify the research need in the near future Have all concerned parties been duly informed on the obligation to apply Integrated Pest Management (IPM) general principles by January 2014? 3. Communication and certified training If planned, please specify how and when Press releases, seminar presentations, information via training of professional PPP users, terms of RDP. Legal requirements are in the Plant Protection Act 1563/2012 and Decree on the genereal principles of integrated pest management 7/ Have you organised visits to IPM fields/demonstration farms/workshops specifically for farmers? If yes, please specify how. IPM visits have been organised in the IPM research and demonstration projects Have you organised visits to IPM managed areas/workshops specifically for non agricultural professional users? 3.4. Will agricultural professional users be trained on new IPM requirements by end of 2013?

3 If planned, please specify how and when for. Certification requirement starts from onwards. Training and certification system is completed in October 2013 and first trainings with certification have been organised for agricultural professional users since 10/2013. Before the SUD training system, agricultural professional PPP users getting environmental subsidies have been trained according to the rules on environmental subsidies every fifth year. These trainings included partly the same issues as SUD training Will non-agricultural professional users be trained on new IPM requirements by end of 2013? If planned, please specify how and when for. Certification requirement starts from onwards. Training and certification system is completed in October 2013 and first trainings with certification have been organised to non-agricultural professional users since 11/ Will distributors of Plant Protection Products (PPP) be trained on new IPM requirements by end of 2013? If yes, please specify how. Certification requirement starts from onwards. Training and certification system is completed in October 2013 and first trainings with certification have been organised to distributors since 11/ Advisory services, pest monitoring and decision making tools 4.1. Are advisory services on Integrated Pest Management (IPM) available to agricultural professional operators? If yes, please specify how and since when. (): Crop protection issues have been included in the farm advisory visits and in farmers' trainings also before that. 2015: Advisory service on crop protection and IPM will form part of the Farm Advisory System from 2015 onwards Are advisory services on IPM available to nonagricultural professional operators? If planned, please specify how and for when. Advice available by private IPM advisory services and Plant Protection Society Are advisory services in IPM trained and certified? If yes, please specify by whom. Advisors in the Farm Advisory System have been and will be certified. Training of advisors will be available also on IPM issues Which decision making tools are already available to advisors and/or professsional users? (more than 1 answer Weather forecasting services Early warning/diagnosis systems Intervention thresholds Monitoring traps, test kits Outcome forecasting models Other IT decision support systems

4 4.5. Please describe the sector/territorial coverage for each of the tools selected in question 4.4 (e.g. regions). Early warning systems: Cereal leaf spot disease forecast (WisuEnnuste), aphid, carrot fly and cabbage fly prognosis. Intervention thresholds: For several crops, insect pests and plant diseases, also for weeds. Monitoring traps, test kits: Coloured sticky traps and pheromone traps for several insect pests; regional pest monitoring services available for e.g. carrot psyllid, carrot fly, cabbage fly, strawberry tarsonemid mite, codling moth on apple. Project funding for monitoring of Phytophthora fragariae var. fragariae on strawberry. Outcomes forecasting models: Cereal leaf spot disease forecast (WisuEnnuste) Other IT DSS: rdic Potato Late Blight Survey Mapper, Will decision making tools be made available to advisors and/or professional users? If yes, please specify the tools and for when they are planned. Plant Protection Society KSS ry, MTT Agrifood Research Finland are developing an internet knowledge portal on IPM (IPM tietoalusta). Portal will provide user interfaces for professional users, advisors, authorities etc. Information will be gathered interactively from different user groups. Portal will serve as a decision support system for professional users, giving information on pests, threshold values and different control stategies etc. on several crops. The project is applying for money at the moment Who is involved in the elaboration of data for early diagnosis systems? (more than 1 answer IPM Advisors University, schools, research centres If other, please specify. IPM Advisors: ProAgria, Nylands Svenska Lantbrukssällskap NSL (WisuEnnuste) Research centres: MTT Agrifood Research Finland : Farmers, Plant Protection Society KSS, Finnish Meteorological Institute, technology developing SMEs, plant breeding industry (plant resistance breeding) 4.8. Will there be data elaborated from early diagnosis systems? 4.9. Who is involved in any update of existing models/threshold and for development of new models/thresholds (e.g. for new crop/pests combination)? (more than 1 answer IPM Advisors University, schools, research centres If other, please specify. IPM Advisors: ProAgria, Nylands Svenska Lantbrukssällskap NSL (advisory service) Research centre: MTT Agrifood Research Finland : Farmers, Finnish Meteorological Institute, technology developing SMEs, plant breeding industry (plant resistance breeding) Will models/thresholds be developed?

5 If yes, please specify as appropriate from whom, which models and when How do the advisors communicate to agricultural professional users? (more than 1 answer ProAgria and MTT will develop WisuEnnuste further. Threshold values will be developed in the coming research projects; research areas will be clarified durin the EraNet C-IPM. Smart phone messages Bulletins via mail Web-sites Bulletins available in Info points Advisors visits Written individual advise If other, please specify. Advise for a group of farmers, field visit days open to farmers, Articles in newspapers, Phone calls, discussions, meetings, trainings. Advisor visits is the main communication channel Do you plan to extend the means of communication from advisors to agricultural professional users? If yes, please specify how and when they are planned for How do the advisors communicate to nonagricultural professional users? (more than 1 answer IPM Tietoalusta, IPM portal in the internet. Smart phone messages Bulletins via mail Web-sites Bulletins available in Info points Advisors visits Written individual advise If other, please specify. Articles in newspapers, Phone calls, discussions, meetings, trainings Do you plan to extend the means of communication from advisors to non-agricultural professional users? If yes, please specify how and when they are planned for Please provide a brief description of the structure of IPM advisory services. IPM Tietoalusta, which is an IPM portal in the internet. Farm Advisory System will offer farmers a possibility to use IPM advisory services. Agency for Rural Affairs (Mavi) will invite advisors to tender and select competent advisors. Mavi offer advisors training on relevant issues, e.g. IPM, as well. IPM is one part of the Farm Advisory System in its entirety. Advisors give instructions in plant protection and IPM issues with the farmers during the planning period of cultivation and advisory visits within the growing season Is the organisation of advisory services private and/or public? Private and Public

6 4.17. How are the advisory services financed? (more than 1 answer Public financial support Mixed public/private Private Public direct payment to farmers in order to make use of the services Are advisors available for agricultural professional users? If yes, please specify how many. About 100 advisors Are advisors available for non-agricultural professional users? If yes, please specify how many. A rough estimate: Are advisory services connected to technical scientific infrastructures operating on IPM such as diagnosis laboratories? Are research needs transmitted from fields to academia? Please specify how and when it is planned for. procedure on research need transmission; depends on activity of farmers and researchers. Comment to the questionnaire: Why there is no possibility to comment the "" answer? I would like to use NO and comment, like in this question Is the feed-back granted from and to farmers on the solutions achieved? Please specify how and when it is planned for. existing feed-back system; depends on activity of farmers and researchers. Comment to the questionnaire: Why there is no possibility to comment the "" answer? I would like to use NO and comment, like in this question Have you organised a demonstration farms network? If yes, please specify how and how many farms are involved Have you organised any other demonstration network? lon-term demonstration farm networks. Research projects on IPM have established demonstration networks, but they are financed only for a period of time, e.g. 3-4 years. Comment to the questionnaire: Why there is no possibility to comment the "N/A" answer? I would like to use N/A and comment, like in this question. 5. Guidelines and other informative technical information 5.1. Are guidelines on general principles of Integrated Pest Management (IPM) available? If yes, please specify how many and/or at what level (regional, national) Are sector specific guidelines on general principles of IPM available? If yes, please specify how many and/or at what level (regional, national). 2012: National decree on general principles of IPM. In 2000: guidelines on balanced plant protection for main crops in Finland. Need updating. In 2013: IPM guidelines for cereals and soft berries.

7 5.3. Are IPM guidelines legally adopted? If yes, please specify how many and/or at what level (regional, national) what sectors are responsible for development and updating of IPM guidelines? (more than 1 answer At national level, 2012: Decree on general principles of IPM If other, please specify. Responsible parties are not named Will IPM guidelines be updated and/or further developed? If yes, please specify by whom and when it is planned for. In the coming research projects. First the EraNet project C-IPM will clarify the research needs in Finland Are crop specific guidelines available to agricultural professional users? If yes, please provide detailed information or, in case, link to national webpages. Please also specify how many and/or at what level (regional, national). 2000: guidelines on balanced plant protection for main crops in Finland. Need updating. 2013: IPM guidelines for cereals (wheat, barley, oat, pea, potatoe, carrot, cabbages, swede, celery, soft berries (mainly strawberry and raspberry), apple What sectors are involved in the distribution of guidelines to farmers and other professional users? (more than 1 answer IPM advisors University, schools, research centres Farmers associations, Agricultural organisations Pesticide and/or bio-control industries Food industries/retailers If other, please specify. Pesticide and/or bio-control industries: voluntarily. Food industries/retailers: potato andhorticulture in the open by Apetit Oy, voluntarily. : Trainers of professional users, many of them are advisors 5.8. Will guidelines to farmers and other professional users be distributed? If yes, please specify by whom and when it is planned for How are IPM guidelines made available to professional users? (more than 1 answer Please see Internet webpages Smart phone Other If other, please specify. Internet and smartphone: IPM knowledge portal is under development, project members are applying funding at the moment Will IPM guidelines be made available to professional users? Please specify how, by whom and when it is planned for. Please see

8 5.11. Which incentives have been put in place to encourage agricultural professional users to implement crop or sector specific guidelines for IPM on a voluntary basis? (more than 1 answer IPM advisory programs/ipm support programs Awareness raising campaigns Food industry retailers demand Certified production systems If other, please specify. IPM advisory programs: FAS, advisors using available material. Awareness raising campaigns: IPM will be included in the NAP communication plan. Food industry retailers demand: Apetit OY by contract farming: IPM guidelines in the contract cultivation in horticulture in the open. Certified production systems: Guidelines in greenhouse cultivation (Laatutarha, "qualified horticulture") Will incentives be put in place to encourage agricultural professional users to implement crop or sector specific guidelines for IPM on a voluntary basis? If yes please specify the incentives and when they are planned for Which incentives have been put in place to encourage non-agricultural professional users to implement IPM sector specific guidelines on a voluntary basis? (more than 1 answer Please see Awareness raising campaigns If other, please specify. Awareness raising IPM will be included in the NAP communication plan Will incentives be put in place to encourage nonagricultural professional users to implement IPM sector specific guidelines on a voluntary basis? 6.1. Have you set indicators to measure progress in Integrated Pest Management (IPM)? 6. Measure the progress achieved If yes, please describe them briefly. 2013: Number of certified professional users Do you have other actions to measure progress? N/A 7. Promotion of low pesticide input pest management 7.1. What are the measures put in place to promote low pesticide-input pest management? (more than 1 answer Information to farmers Lower fees for registration of low risk products Tareted public research Best practices awards Organic farming subsidies Integrated production subsidies Awareness raising on identified best practices to encourage development 7.2. Do you to plan put in place measures to promote low pesticide-input pest management?

9 If yes, please specify the measures and when they Information to farmers: IPM as a part of NAP will be in place. communication plan. Lower Fees for registration of low risk products: since 2007, Lower fee for registration of biological products and for low-risk products. Targeted public research: planned for, EraNet C-IPM Best practices awards: Best plant protection -contests organised by PPP industry and agricultural magazines Organic farming subsidies: since 1990, National organic farming subsidies ; part of EU subsidies since 1995 Integrated Production subsidies: since 2007, Pest observation subsidied (EU environmental subsidies) in horticulture. Awareness raising on identified best practices to encourage development: Communication and awareness raising within the IPM research projects 7.3. Is priority given to non-chemical methods? If yes, please describe or, in case, make reference to NAP chapters. NAP chapters 4.10 IPM and Organic production 8.1. Are integrated Production certified schemes in place? 8. Complementary related policies 8.2. Is crop rotation at farm level encouraged? If yes, please specify how. By extension service Are ecological infrastructures (e.g. wild flower strips, hedges etc.) inside and outside the cultivation site encouraged? If yes, please specify how. EU environmental subsidies: green fallow, landscape fields (LHP) 8.4. Are buffer zones between crop areas and sensitive off-crop areas encouraged? If yes, please specify how. A long time ago: Risk based and crop specific buffer zones along waterways 3-50 m. General buffer zone on the fields along waterways, 3 meter with no PPP nor ferilization. : Buffer zones close to sensitive areas under discussion Have you identified any obstacles/diverging policies to full implementation of general principles of IPM? If yes, please specify which and, if relevant, what measures have been taken to address these. possibilities to run big projects and programmes - more funding for IPM would make it easier. Measures to address these: Partner in the EraNet C-IPM project Have you identified any unintended effects (e.g. socio-economical level)? 8.7. Do you have any other complementary policy you would like to mention?