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Trends for Commercialization of Biocontrol Agent (Biopesticide) Products

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Plant Defence: Biological Control

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The need to implement an agricultural system taking into account sustainable development has fostered many initiatives to develop alternative methods in order to reduce the use of chemical synthetic pesticides for plant protection. Among these alternatives, the use of Biocontrol Agents (BCAs) or biopesticides has aroused increasing interest because of their ecological advantages. Their commercialization now increases but the part they occupy in Plant Protection Products (PPP) market is still marginal. After defining what are the BCAs (biopesticide) products, this chapter analyses the factors that encourage or hamper this development and also considers the room of BCAs (biopesticides) and the trends in the global PPP market.

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The author is thankful to Louis Damoiseau, Chairman of IBMA France, and to Marianne Decoin, Redactor-in-chief of Phytoma, for useful information

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Regnault-Roger, C. (2012). Trends for Commercialization of Biocontrol Agent (Biopesticide) Products. In: Mérillon, J., Ramawat, K. (eds) Plant Defence: Biological Control. Progress in Biological Control, vol 12. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-1933-0_6

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