The FAO/IAEA Spreadsheet for Designing and Operation of Insect Mass Rearing Facilities

The sterile insect technique has in many countries become an important control tactic for integration in area-wide integrated pest management programmes against fruit flies of economic importance. This document combines an interactive spread sheet on Excel on a CD Rom and a procedure manual to assist in technical and economic decision making with the design, costing, construction, equipping and operating of such mass-rearing facilities.