Role of commercial insectaries in promoting biological control [in India]
A commercial insectary is essentially a biofactory where parasites and predators are mass-produced (or collected) with professional expertise and offered for sale. Thus, cultivators can readily buy natural enemies, as they do chemical pesticides, for controlling the pests. Several countries like the...
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| Format: | Proceedings Paper |
| Language: | English |
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Penerbit Universiti Pertanian Malaysia
2013
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| Online Access: | http://agris.upm.edu.my:8080/dspace/handle/0/1367 |
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| Summary: | A commercial insectary is essentially a biofactory where parasites and predators are mass-produced (or collected) with professional expertise and offered for sale. Thus, cultivators can readily buy natural enemies, as they do chemical pesticides, for controlling the pests. Several countries like the U.S.A., the U.S.S.R., China and those in Europe etc. have taken the lead in establishing such, insectaries which are managed by private enterpreneurs, growers' cooperatives, government agencies etc. These anually produced and sell several millions of natural enemies for control of variety of pests. Recently in India, with the establishment of the first commercial insectary in the country "Biocontrol Research Laboratories" at Bangalore, a beginning has been made in this direction. The work of such insectaries is brief fly discussed. |
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