IPMG Research

Hello sir would you please give me some information about some ongoing research project of IPMG?

[Kiran Chandar]

IPMG is a group of marketing communications companies, united by a shared vision and it is constantly evolving and adapting its research depending on industry needs.

It is a membership-based collaborative research and consultative body and it is on providing innovative and sustainable solutions for pest and disease management in the Australian plantation forestry industry.

Research: Projects:
Some ongoing research and program areas include;

Setting up cross-company and estate-wide monitoring and surveillance programs in WA and Green Triangle
Developing cross-company web-based pest and pathogen databases
Trialling the use, efficacy and effects of bio-insecticides on pests and beneficial predator species.
Investigating the use of parasitoids for the effective bio-control of Gonipterus scutellatus
Biodiversity, distribution and phenology of insect herbivores and their natural enemies in plantations.
Identification, distribution and presence levels of the main pathogens occurring in plantations.
Relationships between insect population levels, the levels of damage caused and productivity in plantations.
Temporal and spatial variation in the environment and its effects on abundance of pests and diseases.
Trialling selective chemical spraying.
Reducing pest and disease levels through silvicultural management.

Board of Directors
John Livingstone Hannan
Foundation Chairman, IPMG

Michael Hannan
Executive Chairman, IPMG

Lindsay Hannan
Executive Director, IPMG

Kevin Slaven
Chief Executive Officer, IPMG

Stephen Anstice
Non Executive Director, IPMG

Address;
IPMG Head Office
Level 3
135-153 New South Head Road
Edgecliff, NSW 2027
Tel: +61 (02) 9469 5000
Postal Address
PO Box 238
Edgecliff, NSW 2027