Nearly 6,000 participants from more than 45 developing countries have benefited from this training. The major emphasis of CICP has been to provide technical assistance and training, including numerous research collaboration initiatives.
Chinese scientists take notes while studying crops in Urbana, Illinois.
An example of multiple-cropping in Columbia. Studying IPM practices in the mountains of Indonesia. It is widely used both in the United States and abroad. These international activities provide IPM experts and scientists from each member institution, including UIUC, an invaluable, stimulating opportunity to study and to educate abroad. A farmer weeds his rice field in Java.