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  1. IRRI's views on Pesticides and Rice Production http://beta.irri.org/test/j15/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=391&Itemid=100102
  2. Prof Geoff Gurr's interview in ABC Radio in Australia. Transcript is available in http://www.abc.net.au/ra/innovations/stories/s2739496.htm
  3. As we celebrate Xmas, farmers in Central Thailand are still facing heavy losses from planthopper outbreaks. We will visit just after Xmas.
  4. Orapin sent 5 website links about BPH devasting rice in Thailand. http://www.bangkokpost.com/news/local/28893/insects-devastate-rice-crops
  5. Planthoppers crash China's hybrid rice party. Latest from Grain. http://www.grain.org/hybridrice/?lid=223
  6. UNEP urges use of eco-agriculture to conserve ecosystem services for sustainability for climate change and to avert another food crisis.
  7. Government decisions to distribute pesticides are based on procedural and political rationality rather than substantive reasoning.
  8. Khun Wichit reports BPH outbreaks in 300,000ha in 15 provinces in Central Thailand. Government decides to distribute more pesticides.
  9. Vice minister Dr B.B. Bong announced that a consortium to address the new rice virus problem to be established by China, Vietnam and IRRI.
  10. Partners are meeting in HoChiMinh City to review and plan research activities for year 2. Details in http://ricehoppers.net/project-news/
  11. Khun Manit of the Rice Seed Center in Chainat reports BPH damages in Central Thailand intensifying. Hopperburn in many fields.
  12. Khun Wichit of Rice Department Thailand reports of BPH outbreaks in Ang Thong province affecting 13,000 ha.
  13. You can now transform % mortality to probits using Excel. See http://ricehoppers.net/publications/. Excel template from kheong@cgiar.org
  14. International Year of Biodiversity go to http://www.cbd.int/2010/welcome/
  15. 2010 is International Year of Biodiversity. Our project's focus is to enhance biodiversity and ecosystem services for sustainable pest mgt
  16. Ministry of Science and Technology of China provides 30 million yuan grant for planthopper research to group headed by Zhejiang University
  17. BPH outbreak on TV Channel 9 in Phichit, Thailand. View in http://bit.ly/2ZzvPp
  18. Drs Choi, Horgan and Heong will be meeting with Chinese partners to explore ways to link 2 new projects funded by the Chinese government.
  19. Virus disease problems carried by the small BPH found in Hunan, China. Check http://hunan.voc.com.cn/article/200910/200910150846066896.html
  20. JS Bentur reports of 1800 ha completely destroyed by WBPH in Karnataka, India. Details in http://www.drricar.org/AICRIP/entomology.htm