Biological Pest Control Articles & Analysis
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“We believe in supplying working, economical, comprehensive solutions to our customers. We believe that biological pest control solutions are better and more sustainable than chemical ...
The European project BIOCOMES brings together companies and research institutes that are looking to bring new means of biological pest control to the market as a way for the EU to stimulate integrated pest management (IPM). ...
The biological control of pest insects in the soil has come one step closer. ...
Some of the organisms affected fulfil important functions in agricultural areas, for example, the wild pollinators and the predatory insects which can play an important role in the biological control of pests. One of the report compilers is Professor Frank Berendse of Wageningen University. ...
” Some examples of those ecosystem services are biological pest control by beneficial insects, weed suppression by cover crops and greater soil fertility thanks to more microbes in the soil, he said. ...
The search is on for insects, mites, microbes or nematodes that could be used in a biologically based approach to controlling silverleaf nightshade, an invasive weed from the Americas that has spread to southern Europe, Africa, India, Australia and elsewhere. ...
And a lot is being done using science for biological control of pest populations right now in Africa. More than anything else we have to take it to the farmers. ...
Similarly, Uzbekistan undertook a project to replace chemical herbicides and pesticides with biological pest control methods. In the 1980s, 12 kilos per hectare of herbicides and pesticides were being applied to crops, but through a World Bank funded Cotton Sector Project, predator insects (including 12 tons of wasps per year) were produced from ...