What Are Biological Pesticides?

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Bio-pesticides are ecofriendly pesticides that are obtained by naturally occuring substances(biochemicals), plants and microbes.
All the natural products are not biopesticides. Some are chemical pesticides if they acts on the nervous system in the pest. Through the use of biopesticides in the wider way, health programme and agriculture can be beneficially effected. There are many disadvantages that associated with the use of chemicals pesticides like genetic variations in the plant of populations,and reduction of beneficial species,that damage to the environment or water bodies, which is health problems and poisoning of food such as cancer that makes biopesticides to come into the picture.

However, at some of the biopesticides like Bt, …show more content…
Microbial pesticides can also control many different kinds of pests, although each separates active ingredient which relatively specific for its target pests…The most widely used of microbial pesticides are subspecies and the strains of Bacillus thuringiensis, or Bt. Each strain of this bacterium that produces a different mix of proteins, and also specifically kills one or few related species of the insect larva……
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Plant pesticides are pesticidal substances in which plants produce from genetic material which have been added to the plant. For example,the scientists that can take the gene for Bt pesticidal protein and that introduce the gene into the plant's of own genetic material. Then the plant,that instead of the Bt bacterium,and manufactures the substance which destroys the pest. Both the genetic material and its genes are regulated by EPA;that the plant itselfs not regulated. …show more content…
This character helps the farmer to make the reduced number of applications. The resultant of the biopesticide applications is an increased yield and quality improvement.India has being an agriculture country that has a major population of the farmers who neither knows that what is the result of their application nor they are educated. It’s a part of their family business. Therefore, once these farmers got a right information they become highly suitable for the rural areas and as such as these are the only alternation to commercial

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