Crop : Bean variety Castilla
Cultivated area : 2 ½ Hectares
Date of planting : February 1^st. 1999
Date of Harvesting : May 26, 1999
Obtained Production : 2.276 kilograms per Hectares, (dried)
Observers : SENASA (National Service for Agrarian Health)

HOMA Consultant: Bachellor Margie Arana

Address of the project: Farm "LA ASCENCION" ( "THE ASCENCION")

Property of Fernando Yactayo
Catagallo Nuevo, Imperial
Cañete, Lima Department, Peru

Cañete, August 6^th, 1999

 

EVALUATION OF HOMA THERAPY PILOT PROYECTS

Consernig the evaluation of pilot farms, specificlly, the HOMA project was carried out in the Farm "LA ASCENCION", in Cantagallo Nuevo, Imperial, Cañete. An area of 2.5 hectares, was planted with beans, "Castilla" variety. Date of planting was February 1^st, 1999. Homa treatment began on 14^th February, 1999. On February 23^rd,(22 days after planting), began the evaluations conserning the incidence of plages in the bean crop, "castilla" variety, carried out by the local office of SENASA (National Service of Agrarian Health of the Peruvian Department of Agriculture), of which the Engineer Ruben Moreno S., is in Charge. The results of such evaluations are the following:

We should emphasize that the entomopatogen which caused the Epizoothy, reducing to a minimum the population of "White Fly", or "fruit fly", is possibily the fungus called Paecilomyces farinosus, since that same genus, was identifyed by specialists from the "National Program of Biological Control", affecting the same species of "white fly" in cotton plantations in the valley, during the same planting season.

Three months after HOMA THERAPY got started, it was observed, as it is indicated in the above chart, that in the last evaluation of this cultivation, there were few adults of "White fly", Bemisia sp, per plant, due to the fact that these insects were affected by the Epizoothy produced by the entomopatogen, presumably Paecilomyces farinosus, which spontaneously appeared due to the practice of HOMA THERAPY technics in the area.

Signature and seal

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Agricultural Sector
SENASA
(National Service of Agrarian Health)
Departmental Coordination, Lima, Callao
Engineer Jorge L. Santiago
Registration No. 55730 Peruvian College of Engineers
In Charge of Cañete Local Office