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Wildflower strips next to strawberry growing area

Strawberry grower attitudes to landscape complexity revealed

With the continuing decline in fast-acting crop protection products authorised for use in fruit crops, Niab’s pest and pathogen ecology team at East Malling has channelled its energies into harnessing naturally occurring organisms from the surrounding environment and developing novel approaches to deliver crop protection that does not rely on conventional crop spraying. In so doing, increasing thought is being given to the management of natural habitats in and around fruit crops and the impact that landscape complexity has on pest control. Michelle Fountain explains...

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