Insect pest problems and their management is a part of modern agriculture. Pest control measures, specially the use of chemical pesticides, however, have evoked a lot of controversy and debate vis-a-vis their deleterious effects on the environment and human health in recent times. Chemical control of insects has been used for a long time, but has serious drawback. No doubt they are providing hopeful results in eradication of insect pests and diseases but they are also killing natural enemies present in soil and with crop.
To overcome these problems identification of safe molecules with better insecticidal properties having lower mammalian toxicity, safe to natural enemies etc., which fits well in the IPM concept are needed at present. Due to gradual withdrawal of synthetic insecticides, concern about the environment, increased organic production and development of insecticide resistance, alternative control methods are needed
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I think that biorationals with control ways used for pest especially stored products pest.
There are no simple answer to this excellent question, but let us start the discussion. If consumers lower their expectations concerning the % of insect damage to the crops and they are willing to pay a premium for agricultural products produced with minimal synthetic inputs, the answer can be yes.
I just saw a reference which claimed that mosquitoes (the worst animal killer of humans) are hard to control, traps are clumsy and not dramatically effective. The author suggested personal protection was often best for not getting an infectious disease from mosquitoes. Also glyphosate, (WHILE NOT AN INTENTIONAL PESTICIDE) is currently under attack as destroying biodiversity in the entire insect population in the USA. It may well be guilty. Non-targeted organisms may well be thus endangered by Monsanto/ Bayer.
Biorational pesticides is working effectively for many pest but not all
Yes Sir. I have observed it incase of management of pests of litchi
Hi,
biorational pesticides used for stored produced pest control also can use in IPM.
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S. Mahmoudvand
The world tends to move towards biorational pest control strategies as the use of synthetic pesticides has raised substantial concerns about its safety. Hence, I believe that the future of plant protection is directly connected to the use of smaller-scale and improved pest and pollination management programs (which includes the use of safer molecules, natural enemies, and pollinating agents).
Regardless of the large body of literature demonstrating the potential of safer compounds (e.g., plant extracts and essential oils) for pest management purposes, there are still some barriers to overcome before drawing any conclusions on their efficiency compared to conventional pesticides.
Here is a list of some points that, in my opinion, are still obscure:
1 - Fully explained risk assessment studies (including potential secondary effects)
2 - How to make these new strategies come to the market.
3 - The price of these new pest control strategies have to be good enough so they can be chosen over synthetic molecules
4 - Going beyond the laboratory: Field and semi-field experiments that can be used as a solid base to the real application of these new strategies.
5 - Development of tactics that are easily executed by farmers (otherwise they are less likely to adopt the technology).
And that goes on...
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