COMPACI IPM Communication, Information and Knowledge Management group

As a requirement, all Competitive African Cotton Initiative (COMPACI) partners are engaged in the promotion of integrated Pest Management (IPM) among their contracted farmers. This necessitates them to invest in capacity development in form of training for their extension staff and the thousands of cotton farmers. COMPACI provides support to the partner companies in accessing technical support in form of training materials and knowledgeable human resources to achieve this. The scarcity of technical man power in the IPM discipline has necessitated that a more efficient mechanism is utilised to speed up networking among partners. This group is created to address this need. COMAPCI partners, extension agents, collaborators, universities, ginners associations, national cotton boards, agro input dealers, Ministries of agriculture and public research staff are encouraged to join this group and participate in the technical discussions.