The IPM strategy can reduce damage due to pests, especially pod borers, in organic vegetable
soybean production systems, and contribute to higher graded pod yield. However, the yield may
be lower than the traditional farmers’ practice, which is based mostly on chemical pesticides.
Hence, the yield gap in tropical organic vegetable soybean should be compensated with the
premium price for the produce, which would encourage the growers to adopt the IPM strategy. In
addition, future research should be focused to demonstrate the safety of organic vegetable
soybean by measuring the pesticide residue levels in produces from the fields receiving the
traditional farmers’ practice.