A major goal of the iPiPE CAP is to implement an infrastructure consisting of stakeholders, data, and tools networked through the Web to deliver observations for early detection and rapid diagnosis of pests that threaten our nation’s crops.
Crop-Pest Programs, focused on one or more crops and associated pests in a production region, are the core of the iPiPE CAP and are crucial to accomplish the goal of sharing pest observation in near real-time among large numbers of stakeholders.