Abstract

VARIOUS CROPS IMPROVEMENT OF BIOPESTICIDES AGAINST COMMON PESTS

Kalpana Tilak, Tulika Mishra*, Mahavir Joshi, Preeti Kanwar, Geetika Sharma and Sneh Lata

Abstract

The world population is going to increase in incredible rate. To feed and cover this population from beat land and fast depleting crop yields would be the great concern and challenge to the future generation. Furthermore the use of genetically modified crops, hybrid seed, fertilizers and pesticide in the agricultural field is major concern today. Pesticide at present is an essential tool to increasing the yield and to protect the economically important crops from pest, insects, fungi, nematode and weeds. Biopesticides products (including beneficial insects) are now available commercially for the control of pest and diseases. The overall aim of biopesticides research is to make these biopesticides products available at farmhouse level at a reasonable price, and this would become a possible tool in the integrated pest management strategy. Moreover, biopesticides research is still going on and further research is desirable in many aspects including bioformulation and areas such as commercialization. There has been a substantial regeneration of commercial awareness in biopesticides as demonstrated by the extensive number of agreements between pesticide companies and bioproduct companies which allow the development of effective biopesticides in the market. This paper has reviewed the important and necessary defection of major biopesticides in the past. The future prospects for the progress of new biopesticides are also discussed.

Keywords: modified crops, pest, insects and fungi.