Abstract
Biopesticides, including microbial pesticides, entomopathogenic nematodes, baculoviruses, plant derived pesticides, and Insect pheromones, the latter when used as mating disruption agents, are receiving increased exposure in scientific annals and the lay press, as alternatives to chemical pesticides and as key components of integrated pest management (IPM) systems (1, 2). The reality, however, is that biopesticides currently represent only a small fraction of the world pesticide market. At the present time, various economic forecasting services estimated the world market for pesticides in 1995 at approx $29 billion (1). The biopesticide are of the market was estimated to be around $380 million in 1995 (1). Although representing only 1.3% of the total, and since the majority of bropesticides are currently marketed for insect control, biopesticides represent approx 4.5% of the world insecticide sales. However, the growth rate for biopesticides over the next 10 years has been forecast at 10–l5% per annum in contrast to 2% for chemical pesticides (2)
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Menn, J.J., Hall, F.R. (1999). Biopesticides. In: Hall, F.R., Menn, J.J. (eds) Biopesticides: Use and Delivery. Methods in Biotechnology, vol 5. Humana Press. https://doi.org/10.1385/0-89603-515-8:1
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