For more than 70 years, agriculture's response to pesticide resistance has been to seek new pesticides in an endless race to keep up with evolving pests.
Researchers now propose a new way to step off this treadmill as farmers embrace the ongoing green revolution in pest control by switching to...
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Science Daily
2023.03.13
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Philstar
2023.03.02
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The Marcos administration will introduce the use of biofertilizers to farmers to reduce the country’s dependence on imported and petroleum-based fertilizers in the wake of concerns over the rising prices of the commodity.
In a video released by the Presidential Communications Office yesterday,...
Biopesticides should be preferred over chemical pesticides for fall armyworm control, study suggests
Eurekalert
2023.03.02
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Safer-to-use and more environmentally-friendly biopesticides should be preferred to fight the fall armyworm (Spodoptera frugiperda) pest instead of more harmful chemical pesticides, a new CABI-led study published in the Journal of Pest Science suggests.
CABI scientists teamed up with...
Outlook
2023.03.01
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India is one of the largest producers of agricultural products in the world. With an increase in climate change and other problems, it has become increasingly important to find sustainable methods of producing crops. One promising solution to this problem has been the introduction of bio-...
HortiDaily
2023.02.17
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Plant nutrition through mineral fertilizers is commonly used in soilless culture systems. A recently published study aims to replace intensive mineral fertilizers with bio-fertilizers, at least partially. The researchers explain:
"We supplemented 50% of the mineral fertilizers with Chlorella...
Greenhouse Grower
2023.02.12
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Biosolutions are becoming more popular in greenhouses throughout the country. They do not replace traditional methods of pest control, but growers are finding many benefits to them. Biosolutions offer new, effective practices to control pests and diseases and offer many environmental benefits....
Krishi Jagran
2023.02.05
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The Odisha University of Agriculture and Technology (OUAT) has ventured into producing liquid nitrogen biofertilizers, an alternative to the unsustainable and expensive biofertilizers that were more in circulation.
Soubhagya Manjari Samantaray, the project’s principal investigator and assistant...
Phys.org
2023.02.05
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A new study led by scientists from the Chinese MARA-CABI Joint Laboratory for Biosafety has discovered the optimal time to apply safer-to-use and more environmentally-friendly biopesticides to fight the Oriental migratory locust pest.
Locusta migratoria manilensis is deemed to be one of the...