Meet the Crop Protectors
It takes a lot of different people to protect our food from pests when it’s growing in the field, harvested, stored and transported to market. All these people have one thing in common: they are helping to make Integrated Pest Management happen. Click on the photos below to meet the Crop Protectors who play an important role in feeding the world.
Hanlie Pretorius
Maize farmer, Groblersdal, South Africa
Jake Leguee
Grain, Oilseed and Special Crop farmer, Saskatchewan, Canada
Paul Temple
Beef & Arable Farmer, Yorkshire, UK
Eduardo Chagas Ferreira da Silva
Agronomist and plant pathologist, USA
Ruramiso Mashumba
Farmer and advocate, Zimbabwe
Phan Anh Tu
Government trainer, Vietnam
Me Thi Le
Rice Farmer, Vietnam
Hung Van Tu
Rice Farmer, Vietnam
My Trang
Third-generation rice Farmer, Vietnam
Jake Freestone
Farmer, United Kingdom
Prof. Dr. Ulisses Antoniassi
Professor at Sao Paulo State University, Brazil
Josh Dillman
Soil and Water Conservation Engineer, Canada
Dr. Sampa Das
Plant Scientist, India
Cecilia Mejia Dominguez
Farmer, Honduras
Emiliano Dominguez
Farmer, Honduras
Cecilia Pokuaa
Farmer, Ghana
Lawrence Owusu
Farmer, Ghana
Bill Crabtree
Farmer, consultant and sustainable agriculture student, Australia
Harley Combs
Agronomist, U.S
Ben Gleason
Program Manager, Iowa Corn Growers Association, U.S
Agnes Quaye
Farmer, Ghana
Mohamed Matinur Rahman
Farmer, Bangladesh
Bella Galhos
Farmer, East Timor
Ramachandra Murthy
Project Manager, India
Abdu Rahim
Farmer and spray service provider, Ghana
Celia Medina
Associate Professor, University of Los Banos, Philippines
Chirene Jelbert
Technical Area Manager, Bayer CropScience, South Africa
Florian Weihrauch
Biologist, Hop Research Institute , Germany
Jude Grosser
Professor in Breeding and Genetics, University of Florida, U.S
Arzu Sezer
Mycologist, Hazelnut Research Institute, Turkey
Sipasi Olalekan Ayodele
Farmer and entrepreneur, Nigeria
Pavitar Pal Singh Pangli
Farmer and educator, India
Pierre Kamere Munyura
Farmer and innovator, Rwanda
Richard Fordyce
Farmer, United States
Arie Sulistyani
Farmer and microbiologist, Indonesia