1Research Scholar, Department of Environmental Science, School for Environmental Sciences, Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar University, Vidya Vihar, Raebareli Road, Lucknow-226025, Uttar Pradesh, India
2Professor, Department of Environmental Science, School for Environmental Sciences, Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar University, Vidya Vihar, Raebareli Road, Lucknow-226025, Uttar Pradesh, India
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Online published on 6 January, 2017.
Biopesticides are revolutionary crop protectants that protect crops from vast array of pests and pathogens in eco-friendly manner. They show plethora of benefits over synthetic pesticides, such as target specificity, less toxicity and biodegradability; however, they lack position in crop protection market and represent only 3.5% of global pesticides market (Olson et al., 2013). Though biopesticides lag behind in commercial pesticide market, they have great deals to offer for development of sustainable agriculture. The successful market for biopesticides can be achieved through understanding the major challenges and constraints faced by them and developing new strategies such as optimising delivery system; screening new and better strains; educating farmers and others to cope up with encountering hurdles.
Crop protectant, Target specificity, Optimising delivery system, Educating farmers
