The main objective of Coffee Plant Protection Case Team are:
- Assess the prevalence and incidence of major coffee diseases, and its management options.
- Assess dynamics of coffee disease and insect pests with respect to climate change and its impact on coffee yield and quality.
- Identify and characterize pre and post-harvest pathogens associated with coffee in production systems at different agro-ecological conditions.
- Investigate the occurrence, intensity and management options of coffee disease & insect pests.
- Study on invasive weed species and its impact on coffee yield and its quality.
- Evaluate coffee varieties or germplasm for the reaction to major pests.
- Establish feasible management practices to reduce pest population below the damaging level in the coffee plantation.
Core Research Areas in Coffee Plant Protection Case Team are:
- Identification and characterization of pest species by using both morphologically and molecularly.
- Experimental research like (biocontrol, botanical control, and chemical control).
- Determine the effects of pesticides on pest population.
- Evaluation of antagonistic plant extract against pest species.
- Determining the influence of microclimate and edaphic factor on coffee pests.
