Botanicals: Towards the Eco-Friendly Approach for Pest Management
Arun Kumar*
Dept. of Entomology, Chandra Shekhar Azad University of Agriculture & Technology, Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh (208 002), India
Pawan Kumar
Dept. of Entomology, Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Gorakhpur University, Gorakhpur, Uttar Pradesh (273 009), India
Puskar Shukla
Dept. of Plant Pathology, Chandra Shekhar Azad University of Agriculture & Technology, Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh (208 002), India
Anoop Kumar
Dept. of Plant Pathology, Sam Higginbottom University of Agriculture, Technology and Sciences, Prayagraj, Uttar Pradesh (211 007), India
DOI: NIL
Keywords: Biodegradable, Botanical pesticides, Eco-friendly, Synthetic pesticides
Abstract
The use of botanical pesticides is now emerging as one of the prime means to protect crops and their products and the environment from pesticide pollution. Botanicals degrade more rapidly than most chemical pesticides and they are considered relatively eco-friendly and less likely to kill beneficial pests than synthetic pesticides with longer environmental retention. The problems caused by synthetic pesticides and their residues have increased the need for effective biodegradable pesticides with greater selectivity. Alternative strategies have included the search for new types of pesticides which are often effective against a limited number of specific target species, are biodegradable into nontoxic products and are suitable for use in integrated pest management programs. Many plants possess pesticidal properties, only a handful of pest control products obtained from plants (pyrethrum, neem, rotenone) are in use because commercialization of botanicals is hindered by several issues.
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