Indian Rural economy depends upon agriculture produces, agricultural practices in turn depends on many factors like good seed stock, environment, irrigation facilities, fertilizers, insects & pest attack etc. in which pest & terminates attack can reduce the produce to even up to 50%.. Use of chemical fungicide causes fertility loss of soil, hazardous to human & animal, major cause of mutation in humans and this in turn is hazardous. Low & ineffective some time potent chemical agents being supplied to farmers even lead to no control of pest attack or may even kill friendly pests.
Major concept of this project is to develop using practice also production techniques among selected stakeholders to produce Beauvera Bassiana as Entomopathogenic fungi and adopt integrated pest management techniques, with main aim to have control on termite attack on crops & horticulture crops.
Objective of Project:-By use of Entomopathogenic Fungi following objectives can be achieved:
Chemical Hazard can be controlled
Soil Fertility can be conserved
Cases against Human & Animal ill health can be controlled
Mutation under various species can be controlled
Friendly pest mortality will reduce
Economic benefit of stakeholders & knowledge bank of farming community will improve.
Output of Project:-
The avenues in form of direct & indirect income are generated. Every person in a group can save to Rs. 5000/- per year as expense on purchasing pesticide- fungicides from market for 1 Hectares land and each farmer can earn additional Rs 4000-5000/- per year by sell of bioagents in open markets. Upon all a farmers in a group practice will be generated which harbor micro financing.
The major output of the project is control termite damage aspects with improvement in social –economic in the area. With spread in technology as in nature this entomopathogenic fungi is self multiplicative adding this fungi in nature with favorable environment will help in more area coverage irrespective of non use of fungi in the agriculture field.
Many species of insect-pathogenic fungi have been characterized for their ability to colonize and become established as fungal endophytes in plants.Beauveria bassianaM. anisopliae, and other hyperclean fungi are known to colonize many plants endophytically (Vega et al., 2008). Several studies have demonstrated the colonization potential of various EPF using different artificial inoculation techniques. Endophytic fungi can be inoculated into plants using foliar application, soil drench, flower treatment, stem injection, seed soaking, etc. (Lopez and Sword, 2015 Muvea et al., 2015 Greenfield et al., 2016 Bamisile et al., 2018b Rondot and Reineke, 2018 Ramos et al., 2020). The inoculation method may depend on the part of the plant targeted for endophytic colonization or the type of insects to be controlled, that is, root eater, stem borer, or leaf chewing insect (Bamisile et al., 2018a). However, irrespective of the inoculation method used, many of the recent studies have revealed several tritrophic interactions that exist among the inoculated plants, the endophytic EPF, and the herbivores feeding on the endophyte-challenged plants (Akello et al., 2008 Vega et al., 2008 Reddy et al., 2009 Dash et al. 2018 ).