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CABI International


CABI Southeast & East Asia

 

CABI office in Selangor, Malaysia

Our main areas of expertise are:

  • Plant health & SPS capacity building
  • Invasive species management
  • Biological control and Integrated Pest Management
  • Agro biodiversity management
  • Knowledge management in support of systems of innovation and sustainable development programmes  
 

Our history

In November 1988, the CAB International Asia Regional Office (CABI-ARO) was established in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia through a Memorandum of Understanding with the Ministry of Agriculture (representing the Malaysian government).Subsequently, in 1997 the CABI South East Asia Regional Centre was formed.  This occurred when CABI-ARO became fully integrated with the Malaysian Centre of CABI Bioscience located within the campus of the Malaysian Agricultural Research & Development Institute (MARDI) in Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia.  In July 2006 we took on a wider mandate and became - CABI Southeast & East Asia.    
 

Our staff

 CABI Southeast & East Asia has 9 staff based at the office in Malaysia, many of whom have over 30 years of experience.

These include:  

  • Dr Loke Wai Hong - Regional Director
  • Dr Lum Keng Yeang - Plant Pathology Expert  
  • Dr  S. Soetikno - Plant Quarantine/SPS Expert  
  • Mr Chan Fook Wing - Information & Communications
  • Ms Lina Yip Sumin – Regional Sales Manager (Asia)
  • Mr Low Ying Chiang – Plant Pathologist
  • Dr Lim Guan Soon – IPM & FPTR Expert
  • Dr Ho Cheng Tuck – Plantation Crops Expert
  • Dr Lee Boun Siew – Expert Plant Pathologist
 
Dr Loke Wai Hong,
Regional Director, CABI Southeast and East Asia

 Our activities

Equipped with a general office, a library and two laboratories connected to insect-screened houses, CABI-SEA carries out a wide range of activities, including:  

  • Conducting research & development on Bioscience and ICT/information
  • Conducting farmer participatory training and research activities
  • Organizing training courses for managers, scientists, information officers, extension workers and technicians
  • Planning and implementing study visits and training attachments
  • Co-supervising graduate/post-graduate students
  • Producing and introducing biological control agents
  • Executing consultancies
  • Conducting project development, co-ordination and implementation
  • Disseminating and marketing information products and materials
  • Linking countries with common interest areas through effective networking  

Our current projects include:

  • The development and production of a manual on IPM for Citrus in Negara Brunei Darussalam
  • Reduction of pesticide usage through IPM Implementation in Fruits, Vegetables and Rice in Brunei Darussalam
  • Enhancing, protecting and beneficial usage of indigenous microbial diversity in oil palm agroecosystems
  • Metabolic Profiling of Soil Microbial Communities in relation to Natural-N Application
  • Advancing IPM for Development in Vietnam  

Our sponsors include:

  • Asian Development Bank (ADB)
  • Australia: ACIAR & AusAID
  • Denmark: DANIDA and DANCED
  • Malaysia: Malaysian Agricultural Research Development        
  • Institute (MARDI), Ministry of Agriculture, Ministry of Science & Technology and International Centre for Management of Pest Fruit Flies
  • Brunei Government  

Future plans

We will be focusing on activities related to:

 bio-based approaches for invasive species management

 IPM/ICM development in support of sustainable production

 plant health and SPS issues

 knowledge networks and systems of innovation and farmer participatory learning & research - including appropriate support to national institutional human resource capacity building.   


 

Contact us :
CABI Southeast and East Asia
PO Box 210,
43400 UPM Serdang,
Selangor,
Malaysia
Tel: +60 3 8942 6489
Fax: +60 3 8942 6490
E-mail: seasia@cabi.org