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Present status and future needs for making biopesticides and IPM popular
A number of microbial and botanical biopesticides are available in Indian market and there are certainly others available elsewhere. However despite programmes that are in progress to popularize these biopesticides, their widespread use has not been witnessed, and as indicated earlier, biopesticides and IPM have yet to become popular with the farmers. Following are some of the solution to make them popular : (i) The quality of the available biopesticides need to be improved and small companies should invest in quality production. (ii) It is necessary to develop an industry to develop awareness among the farmers, about the benefits of biopesticides.

(iii) Government needs to give low interest loans for biopesticides at least in the initial phase, so that the farmers do not shy away due to prohibitive cost and they use them to recognize the long term benefits. (iv)Research and development in the area of biopesticides other than Bt and neem based biopesticides, also need to be strengthened and this need to be funded by the government. (v) More research is needed on ‘lab to field transfers’, because some biopesticides  do well in the laboratory, but not in the field. (vi) There is a need for a check on negative role of strong chemical pesticide industry, which is preventing the promotion of biopesticides to protect their own interest. Even the government machinery sometimes plays in the hands of pesticide industry. (vii) Registration of biopesticides formulations is itself quite cumbersome and expensive; it needs to be made simpler and cost effective.

 

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