Pest Management

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Since time immemorial, insect pests and diseases have been our main competitors for food and other agricultural products. In the recent era of agricultural intensification, pest control strategies relied primarily on synthetic organic chemical pesticides. But the rapid evolution of insect pests under the pressure of pesticide selection and the emergence of new pests has led to an escalation of energy in pest control technologies through the introduction of new chemicals each year, Thus agriculture on the treadmill pesticide without interruption. In addition to jeopardizing the sustainability of agriculture, pesticides pose a public health problem through bioaccumulation in the food chain. We now realize that the use of chemical pesticides does more harm than well-being to the biosphere. The changing perception of pest management therefore requires more recent and environmentally sound pest management tools. An alternative to the use of synthetic organic pesticides is to exploit various entomopathogenic plants and fungi that have developed a surprisingly diverse range of active agents to control diseases and pests.