VISION· Completing the accreditation duties and becoming an institution which have laboratories with international standards,
· Leading the plant health researches with knowledgeable, qualified academic staff and equipment,
· For safe agricultural products; within the framework of the integrated management, overseeing the human and environmental health and natural balance on managing the pests,
· Demonstrating new approaches with technological and sustainable methods for the solution of the problems,
· Strengthening the physical infrastructure of the Nazife Tuatay Plant Protection Museum and providing sustainable services in the international arena,
MISSION· Using advanced techniques in the field of plant health to produce environmentally-friendly technology and knowledge, developing R&D infrastructure according to international standards to become a center of excellence,
· Demonstrating the identification, distribution, intensity and loss levels of the harmful organisms on plants and agricultural products and determining the economical harm levels and management thresholds,
· Developing native plant protection products and plant protection machinery,
· Running resistance monitor and management programs for pesticides,
· Determining control methods with reducing use of chemical inputs to control harmful organisms,
· Making researches on alternative management methods instead of chemical management,
· Collecting, saving and cataloging of fauna, flora and microflora organisms across the country,
OUR GOALS· Establishment of accredited laboratories
· Development of biopesticides, pheromones and attractant materials in pest control
· Implementation of native technology for the development of prototypes of highly effective spraying systems
· Development of new biopesticide formulation through field scale efficacy tests
· Improvement of innovative pest applications devoted to the reduction of conventional pesticides
· Improving the conditions of Nazife Tuatay Plant Protection Museum and development of data bank.
· Exploring pesticide resistant harmful organisms and implentation of resistance monitor in the country.
· Investigating resistance factors in plant against to harmful organisms
· Encouragment for multidisciplinary national/international projects
· Development of new methodologies in identificaion of harmful organisms
· Increasing national/international attentions on Turkish Plant Protection Bulletin (published since 1952) by its promotion to SCI-expanded list
· Development of risk maps for harmful organisms
· Monitoring populations of beneficial and harmful organism under changing climate and environmental conditions
· Conducting projects to monitor beneficial/harmful organisms-ecosystem relationships
· Improving early-warning methods in pest control strategies
· Investigating new pest control agents as an alternative to Methyl Bromide
· Determination of pest residue limits in major agricultral products in the country
· Development of new pesticide application techniques to reduce water pollution
· Analyzing seconder ingredients in additon to active ingredients in pesticide formulations
· Improvement of sprayer evaluation technologies
· Improvement of new solution to reduce herbicide runoff through soil surface.
· Increasing herbicide efficiency and decreasing herbicide use in the country
· Updating the methods used in pesticide analysis in paralllel with EU, FAO and WHO standarts.
· Implementation of mass productions for biological pest agents
· Determination of side effects of pest control agents on beneficial organisms
· Performing ecotoxicological monitoring programs of the pest control agents used in the country.
· Investigating the effects of agricultural product processing on pest residues
· Investigations of the nutritional links between biological control agents, hosts and plants for programming pest management in nation-wide.
