Plants Based Insecticides as Promising Source of Biopesticides-A Review

Abstract

In recent decades, biopesticides have gained interest in pest control and have long been marketed as possible alternatives to conventional pesticides. Biopesticides actually make up a small share of the world’s overall crop protection market, with a value of approximately $3 billion globally, contributing for just 5% of the overall stock for crop protection. Consistent and harmful pesticide activities contribute to the growth of insect resistance, the degradation of beneficial species and the raise of residual issues, thereby raising a danger to human health and its ecological partners in living biomes. The need for the future is to establish an eco-friendly solution to the fight against predatory insects that should be able to control the populations ofpests by researching naturally occurring botanicals, particularly plant extracts, insecticidal plants and essential oils of plants that can serve as useful repellents, antifeedants, insecticides, fungicides, weedicides, molluscicides, etc. The present review focuses the current scenario ofplant based products for development offuture biopesticides.