Achievements

1- Establishment of applied pest management programs for major economic pests e.g. cotton pests, sugarcane pests, termites, citrus pests, potato pests, rodent and bird pests and snail pests.
2- Development of new Biological control products (bacterial and virus) which are being used successfully against potato tuber moth in the field and storage.
3- Successful production and release of Trichogramma insect parasite in sugar cane fields (more than 120,000 feddans / year) to control sugar cane borers. The same parasite was successfully used against date palm pests.
4- Participating in the national pest control campaigns i.e. wheat, rice, maize as well as rodent control.
5- Identification and classification of all insect pest species as well other related species.
6- Preparation and publishing of the "Technical Recommendations for the Control of Agricultural Pests" book, as well as various scientific publications, pamphlets, and training materials.
7- Distribution of paper and water traps for cotton leafworm & pink and spiny bollworms control in cotton fields.
8- Control of cotton leafworm on clover (berseem) by means of biological control agents (bacteria).
9- Forecasting and estimation of cutworm, mole crickets and cotton leaf worm level of infestation prior to the commencement of cotton growing season.
10- Putting into practice the application of lure (attract & kill) technique in controlling the pink bollworm in cotton fields.
11- Assessment of rice varieties resistance to pest infestation.
12- Putting the IPM strategies against citrus pests into practice.
13- Exert intensive efforts to find out efficient substitutes for the control of citrus leaf miners.
14- Establishment of an Insect Collection Unit that holds samples of foreign species to help in identifying exotic pests.