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A technology of non-insecticidal control of soybean and stevia pests was farm-tested for the first time in Krasnodar Territory. It effectively obviated the need for insecticide treatments in an unfavorable phytosanitary situation, whereas under favorable phytosanitary conditions, both insecticide treatments and means of active biological control could be cancelled. The soybean yield-capacity was 3.29–4.10 t/ha, which was 1.7–2.2 times the average yield-capacity for Krasnodar Territory in 2012–2014. The use of this technology in stevia plantations allowed the farmers to produce clean pharmacological raw materials with no deterioration of their quantity and quality while omitting the use of insecticides. Non-insecticidal control of soybean and stevia pests required only 0.023–0.526 of the usual costs of insecticidal protection and allowed the farmers: (a) to increase the profitability of production of organic foods and raw materials; (b) to improve the phytosanitary situation in agroecosystems and landscapes; (c) to create conditions for preservation, reproduction, accumulation and amplification of the beneficial activities of entomophages.
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This paper is dedicated to the loving memory of Evgeny Semenovich Sugonyaev, the outstanding Russian entomologist, ecologist, and an internationally known expert in biological plant protection.
Original Russian Text © V.V. Kostjukov, I.V. Nakonechnaya, O.V. Kosheleva, T.M. Apolonina, V.M. Ivchenko, N.A. Shcherbakov, A.A. Komantsev, 2015, published in Entomologicheskoe Obozrenie, 2015, Vol. 94, No. 2, pp. 282–289.
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Kostjukov, V.V., Nakonechnaya, I.V., Kosheleva, O.V. et al. Farm testing of non-insecticidal control of soybean and stevia pests in Krasnodar Territory. Entmol. Rev. 95, 441–446 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0013873815040053
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