Looking for alternative environmentally friendly methods to control wireworms in potato production

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Publication date	Tuesday, 11 October, 2022
Keywords	worm Pest / disease control pesticide Plant production and horticulture potato

The Operational Group ‘ARGE Drahtwurm’ in Austria has been carrying out trials on 7 farms to find alternative control measures without using synthetic pesticides. Find out how they found a solution to reduce the wireworm population.

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