Full Trap Method in Handling Warehouse Pests in Ledokombo, Jember

Rice is the main source of food in Indonesia which its needs is increasing each year. The minimum availability of rice in the market is caused by the scarcity of rice stock in rice storage warehouses due to the existence of warehouse pests. Beside decreasing the quantity and quality of rice, they al...

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Published inIOP conference series. Earth and environmental science Vol. 207; no. 1; pp. 12040 - 12045
Main Authors Erdiansyah, I, Mayasari, F, Putri, S U, Kartikasari, V, Eliyatiningsih
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Bristol IOP Publishing 01.11.2018
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Agricultural economics
Buckets
Chemical control
Chemical pest control
Community service
Farmers
Food sources
Granaries
Humidification
Humidifiers
Hygiene
Insects
Packaging
Pest control
Pesticides
Pests
Pheromone traps
Pheromones
Rice
Sanitation
Training
Warehouses
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Summary:Rice is the main source of food in Indonesia which its needs is increasing each year. The minimum availability of rice in the market is caused by the scarcity of rice stock in rice storage warehouses due to the existence of warehouse pests. Beside decreasing the quantity and quality of rice, they also affect financial losses by farmers. The declining quality of rice causes the price offered by collecting merchants to be very cheap and far below the Floor Price. The Team of Community service provides counseling and training of warehouse pest control using full trap to farmer groups in Jember. The Team of Community service also conducts counseling about warehouse sanitation in order to keeping the hygiene of warehouse properly. To increase farmers' income, the Team of Community service also conducts marketing management training. Full trap method is a method combination of physical and chemical control. The management was applied by purple lights and chemical pesticides, humidifiers with colorful lights and insect pheromones, and mouse traps from buckets. The results showed wet pests that were caught in full trap media are Sitophilus oryzae pests, Rhyzopertha dominica, Cryptolestes ferrugineus, Necrobia rufipes, Tribolium castaneum, Sitophilus granaries, Periplaneta amiricana, Solenopsis fugax, Rattus rattus diardi, Spodoptera litura. As the population of warehouse pests decrease, while rice quality and packaging increase.
ISSN:1755-1307
1755-1315
1755-1315
DOI:10.1088/1755-1315/207/1/012040