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Action Plan:

IMMPACT meetings have focused on collaborative efforts to effectively advise potato growers in the region on optimum late blight control methods. The general action plan includes the following: 

• Formation of an international group of crop advisors and policy makers to address current issues
• Development of consistent information on disease inoculum, cull pile management, and control methods
• Establishment of a common system of weather monitoring and disease forecasting
• Continued emphasis on timely and accurate telephone “hotline” programs and establishment of an email list server for local crop advisors to receive late blight updates
• Agreement on township / parish resolution for blight warnings
• Planning for in-season Blightcast television reports
• Development of news topics targeting critical disease control stages
• Website outreach to consolidate existing late blight information
• Establishment of media contatacts for technical and policy issues


The Maine and New Brunswick Potato Producing Region

The traditional potato farming region of Aroostook County, Maine and Northwest New Brunswick (see map) is comprised of several hundred family farms that have made the potato their primary cash crop for generations.  Though divided by an international boundary, the region appears as a continuous stretch of cultivated land, where many Maine and New Brunswick farms are separated by fence posts, tree lines or the St. John River.  Other potato areas are visible in Quebec, Maine, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and Prince Edward Island.

 

 

Achieving Potato Health Through Collaborative Programs

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