BIO-PESTICIDE
NTS Research & Inc. has been researching non-toxic plant-derived pesticides since 1999. We are the first in the world to develop new pest controlling bio-chemicals with great success. These bio-chemicals are non-toxic, 100% natural and bio-degradable, cause minimal damage to predators and are the safest and most cost effective pesticides on the market. It will greatly contribute to humankind and the environment.
Biopesticides are certain types of pesticides derived from such natural materials as animals, plants, bacteria, and certain minerals. For example, canola oil and baking soda have pesticidal applications and are considered biopesticides. Biopesticides fall into three major classes.
- Microbial pesticides consist of a microorganism (e.g., a bacterium, fungus, virus or protozoan)
- Plant-Incorporated-Protectants (PIPs) are pesticidal substances that plants produce from genetic material that has been added to the plant.
- Biochemical pesticides are naturally occurring substances that control pests by non-toxic mechanisms.
Conventional pesticides are generally synthetic materials that directly kill or inactivate the pest. In contrast, biochemical pesticides include substances, such as insect sex pheromones, that interfere with mating, as well as various scented plant extracts that attract insect pests to traps.
To sum up, biopesticides generally refer to eco-friendly pesticides derived from animals and plants. However, the EPA (Environment Protection Agency) of the United States expands the category of bio-pesticides to include all kinds of pesticides derived from natural substances, that are not made artificially, such as minerals. According to this criterion, we can classify soybean oil, corn oil, mustard seed oil, rosemary oil, and garlic oil as bio-pesticides as well. Around 250 effective ingredients have been registered as bio-pesticides in the U.S. since 2003, and there are approximately 1200 products made by such ingredients.
Recently developed and used pesticides are relatively safe as they are reduced-risk pesticides that lessen the negative effects on human beings and the environment. Along with increasingly banning the use of some pesticides that may appear to cause problems, an international trend of the agriculture industry is to encourage focus on protecting the natural environment. Developing pesticides that are harmless to nature and influential to essential microbes and insects is becoming more widespread. Additionally, such tendencies have even affected chemical pesticide products, with respect to eco-friendly qualities.
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