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Did you take your poison today?
The report "Did you take your poison today?" was written, designed and produced by the IPM DANIDA project (Andrew Bartlett, Hein Bijlmakers) to provide a wide audience with information on pesticides in Thailand. The report contains many facts on pesticide hazards and also includes the opinions of a number of people who were interviewed on this subject. The document is available in Thai and English. It can be downloaded as PDF file but can also be viewed as web pages.
Your_poison_today_(Thai).pdf (2.1 MB) Your poison today (English).pdf (2.2 MB)

IPM Farmer Field Schools: Refresh your Memory
This guide has been designed as a collection of suggestions to refresh the memory of FFS facilitators who graduated from a season-long TOT, providing them with some practical information and tips for planning, running, and evaluating their FFS. It is not meant to be a training manual for new facilitators. The document is available in Thai and English. It can be downloaded as PDF file but can also be viewed as web pages.
Refresh_your_Memory_(Thai).pdf (5.7 MB) Refresh_your_Memory_(English).pdf (5.5 MB)

Training manuals on health effects of pesticides
Two training manuals by Helen Murphy on the health effects of pesticides are available in Thai and English and can be downloaded as PDF files. One manual contains the curriculum for a training program (for farmers or school children) that prepares the participants to conducts a cross-sectional survey on the health effects of pesticides in their community. The second manual is for a training of farmers to start a self-surveillance system to study the effects of pesticides on health over a longer period of time. See also: Pesticides and farmers’ health
Farmer_kid_manual_(Thai).pdf (0.84 Mb) Surveillance_manual_(Thai).pdf (0.62 Mb) Farmer_kid_manual_(English).pdf (1.09 Mb) Surveillance_manual_(English).pdf (0.55 Mb)

Working with natural enemies
CABI Bioscience has published a series of bulletins on Natural Enemies. The first bulletin with the title "Understanding Natural Enemies" was translated to Thai language and can be downloaded as a PDF file. The second and third bulletins, "Conserving natural enemies" and "Augmenting natural enemies" were also translated to Thai combined into one document, which also can be downloaded as PDF file.
Understanding_Natural_Enemies_(Thai).pdf (2.87 Mb) Conserving_Augmenting_Natural_Enemies_(Thai).pdf (4.60 Mb)

Cabbage Ecological Guide
The FAO Inter-Country Programme for Vegetables IPM has produced an Ecological Guide for Cabbage Integrated Pest Management. This guide provides general technical background information on cabbage production supplemented with IPM field experiences from various sources. The guide has now been translated to Thai language and can be downloaded as a PDF file.
Cabbage_Ecological_guide_(Thai).pdf (3.9 Mb)

Natural enemies of Diamond Back Moth
An IPM newsletter entirely dedicated to Diamond Back Moth (DBM) and its natural enemies can be downloaded here. It gives information on parasitoids of Diamondback moth in Thailand and gives details on how to rear diamondback moth larvae to look for parasitoids.
Newsletter_DBM_(Thai).pdf (0.58 Mb) Newsletter_DBM_(English).pdf (0.73 Mb)

Grower's guide to Bt Bt Basics for Vegetable Integrated Pest Management
Two IPM newsletters entirely dedicated to the use of Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt). The "Growers' Guide to Bt" gives information for farmers on the use of Bt to manage Diamondback moth. The "Bt Basics for Vegetable IPM" is a Bt newsletter for IPM facilitators.
Newsletter_Growers_guide_Bt_(English).pdf (0.36 Mb) Newsletter_Facilitators_guide_Bt_(English).pdf (0.69 Mb)

Pesticide health surveys
Pesticide-health surveys were carried out by a number of farmer groups in Thailand. Data collected by some of these farmer groups are now available as reports in PDF format. Data of 606 farmers in Thailand Data of 123 farmers in Chainat, Thailand, August-September 2004 Data of 124 farmers in Mae Wang, Chiang Mai, Thailand, May 2004 Data of 109 farmers in Chaiprakarn, Chiang Mai, Thailand, July 2004 Data of 79 farmers in petchaboon, Thailand, January 2005
Health_data_606_(English).pdf (0.51 Mb) Health_data_606_(Thai).pdf (0.61 Mb) Health_data_123_Chainat_(English).pdf (0.41 Mb) Health_data_124_Mae_Wang_(English).pdf (0.33 Mb) Health_data_109_Chaiprakarn_(English).pdf (0.49 Mb) \Health_data_79_(English).pdf (0.24 Mb)

Newsletters
A newsletter on safe food "Safe food starts at the farm" informs consumers about the health effects of pesticides. Another newsletter gives information on pesticide-health surveys that were carried out by farmers in Kanchanaburi and Phitsanulok (See also: Pesticides and farmers’ health)
Newsletter_safe_food_(English).pdf (0.74 Mb) Newsletter_pesticides_health_(English).pdf (0.74 Mb)

Newsletters 13 -15 (Thai Version Only)
The Newsletter #13 is "Dangerous from Pesticide" The Newsletter #14 is "Trainer for Training IPM Meeting on Karnjanaburi Province" The Newsletter #15 is "Meeting For IPM Farmer Fields School on Pitsanulok Province"
Newsletter_IPM_13_(Thai).pdf (0.80 Mb) Newsletter_IPM_14_(Thai).pdf (1.45 Mb) Newsletter_IPM_15_(Thai).pdf (0.62 Mb)