infographic - mealybug threat to cassava in se asia
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Starch trade: second biggest importer in the region
Pests and diseases in cassa-va threaten food security, rural livelihoods, and re-gional economic activity.
Mealybug Threat to Cassava
Increased demand for cassava from starch industry: noodles, pharmaceuticals, sweeteners
Indonesia has the highest utilisation directly as food in Asia – half is directly consumed as a staple food
Up to US$20 billion saved by minute wasps in Africa in 1980s =
200 times the cost of research and famine prevented for millions
2008
First main pests started appearing around
Mealybug was 1st reported in 2008 in Thailand and spread throughout Greater Mekong sub-region.
4m ha cassava fields
SE ASIA
8m 40mhousehold producers farmers
m = million16 m in 2000 26.4 m in 2014
1 mha
INDONESIAmost important pro-ducing country in SE Asia
Cassava production (tons):
of locally-grown
is used as food
cassava
Cassava pest: Mealybug Natural parasitoid: Anagyrus lopezi wasp
In September 2014, first field cage
release of 2000 wasps in
Indonesia: biological
control and first-phase
clamp-down
One of the most destructive cas-sava pests in the world. Can reduce yields by
84%
58%
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