Role of commercial insectaries in promoting biological control in India


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Manjunath T.M., . (1986) Role of commercial insectaries in promoting biological control in India. [Proceedings Paper]

Abstract

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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Abstract

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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Item Type: Proceedings Paper
Additional Information: 7 ref. Summary En
AGROVOC Term: ENEMIGOS NATURALES
AGROVOC Term: DEPREDADORES
AGROVOC Term: PARASITOS
AGROVOC Term: CONTROL BIOLOGICO
AGROVOC Term: COMPANIAS
AGROVOC Term: INDIA
Geographical Term: MALAYSIA
Depositing User: Ms. Norfaezah Khomsan
Last Modified: 24 Apr 2025 05:25
URI: http://webagris.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/14007

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