Advances in Bio-Botanicals Formulations with Incorporation of Nanotechnology in Intensive Crop Management

Abstract

With changing environmental conditions, biotic and abiotic stresses with direct impact on pest-diseases complexes, the usage of chemical pesticides has increased tremendously in recent times. However, the increasing awareness on environmental and human health safety along with food security concerns has opened up the path for an array of botanical based pesticide formulations. The plant based products with insecticidal activity are well used as active ingredients in different types of new generation formulations as developed at Institute of Pesticide Formulation Technology (IPFT). Various researches on new molecules to combat the different Isotypes of pest population in different geography created a need to strengthen the Formulation technology now days, although various agrochemical companies are indulge to enhance and improvise their products and add significant value to the intensive crop management. Based on research and development at IPFT with use of nanotechnology certain commercially viable factor has been discovered and developed to develop new eco-friendly effective nano based pesticide formulations for the safety of environment and human kind.