VI/NFU IPM Plan 鈥� specialist horticulture crops
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Completing an IPM plan annually will help ensure that opportunities to improve productivity are not missed and also help meet the market demand to see more sustainable practices and reduced reliance on pesticides. It may also be necessary for compliance with farm assurance schemes.
Numbers completing the previous VI IPM Plan annually had risen to nearly 8,000 businesses, mainly in England and Wales. The structure of this plan meant that collating information to measure the industry鈥檚 progress in adopting IPM was impossible. In addition, it did not fully recognise that one key aspect of IPM is the need to evaluate regularly the approaches adopted. So, it has been revised in order that the increasing uptake of IPM to the industry鈥檚 customers and to Government and its agencies can be demonstrated.
Integrated Pest Management (IPM) is a whole farm approach to crop protection that maximises profitability while minimising environmental impact. Find out more about IPM.
The VI/NFU IPM Plan enables individual businesses to evaluate their crop protection practices and continue to improve and develop IPM planning and adoption. The plan allocates scores for the different components of IPM, enabling users to establish a baseline score and measure improvements year on year. Upon completion you will receive a tailored report of your plan.
The collated information collected through these plans may be used to help develop future policy. Data collected from individual businesses will not be published or allow businesses to be identified by inference.
The VI would like to thank Henry Creissen of SRUC for their help in compiling these IPM Plans, which are based on published peer reviewed work (; ).