2021•Unpublished venueOpen access

The Role of Natural Enemies and Biopesticides for Sustainable Management of Major Insect Pests of Legumes

Sathish Kota, Vinod S. Kukanur, Reddy Ramya Sree, N. D. Arora, Jagdish Jaba, D. K. Rana

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Grain legumes are damaged by several numbers of insect species in the field and storage. The indiscriminate use of insecticides causes environmental health hazards and insect resistance. Therefore, there is a need to adopt eco-friendly management practices, manipulation of the crop environment to encourage the activity of natural enemies, use of natural plant products and bio-pesticides alone or in combination with synthetic pesticides, can be exploited for pest management in food legumes

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Key concepts: Biopesticide, Natural enemies, Insect, Agroforestry, Biology, Natural (archaeology), Business, Agronomy