Growing coffee organically, what solutions aside from applying Mycotrol, Garlic Barrier and setting ethanol/methanol traps, can you use?
At our Institute of Organic Farming we are mass multiflying Beveria bassiana which has given good control over coffee berry borer in farmers fields at virajpet and Kodagu area
You can use the Neem products since it has got the antifeedant, oviposititi on detterent, repellent and insect growth regulation properties. This neem formulation can be used either aas standalone treatment or in combinaiton with Bueaveria bassiana. CErtified products are available for use in organic coffee or in any other plants.
As per my knowledge and research experience we can use the Metarrhizium anisipolae along with the garlic chili kerosene extract at the rate of 5% solution
Rachel,
In Brazil, the company Koppert Biological Systems has developed and obtained registration of Boveril WP product, based on Beauveria bassiana, PL63 strain for the biological of the coffee berry borer control with the Ministry of Agriculture Livestock and Supply (MAPA) in 2014.
The Colombian coffee research institution CENICAFE and thus the national coffee federation (FEDECAFE) appear to have ignored the possibilities of experimenting and possibly recommending the use of neem based sprays for the control of the coffee borer. Experiments using a mix of neem and beauvaria were also very promising in a number of studies. Endosulphan has been shown to be a dangerous control agent since it has strongly negative effects on earthworm activity. If I am wrong please correct me in this opinion with respect to neem.