CIC 405: Integrated Pest Management using Seamless Climate Information

**1. Title of the project:**CIC 405: Integrated Pest Management using Seamless Climate Information

**2. Duration:**December 2021 – July 2022

**3. Objective:**Development of the Seamless Pest Management Platform (SPMP) for integrated pest management using seamless climate information by taking less-regret management decisions based on the WMO ready-set-go climate service framework

4. Outputs:

a) UniDform packages for daily 1km resolution grid observation package, S2S downscaling package, seasonal forecast downscaling package, and SSP scenario based downscaled time-series DB (18 GCMs, 4 SSP scenarios)

b) GMP3 package for five rice diseases and insect pests

c) IPM Decision Tree matrix with full range of management options for selected rice diseases and insect pests, linked with seamless pest risk information

d) SPMP software package for climate information and IPM recommendations for seamless pest management