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Research institute launches innovative product to combat Lobesia botrana
Oct. 18, 2017
Chile’s Agricultural Research Institute (INIA) has joined Lobesia botrana control program established by the country’s Agricultural and Livestock Service, assessing new alternatives to tackle this plague. INIA highlighted a biopesticide based on the Entomopathogenic fungus.
It is an innovative product, whose main attribute is its sustainable character that allows integrated plague management in grapevines.
Lobesia botrana, since the first appeared in Chile nearly a decade ago, has been a matter of concern to the entire agricultural world, both for its ability to reproduce and for its voracity.
This project has the goal to control the Lobesia botrana plague biologically in context of climate change through a strategy that has two stages. The first consists of the development of a biopesticide of Entomopathogenic fungi that is native of the genders Beauveria sp. and Metarhizium sp. on matrices that allow the viability, specificity, and effectiveness of fungi in its applications to urban and productive zones of the country. The second stage is the technological transfer of the use of biopesticides to residents of urban centers, with small and large producers managing and controlling the plague.
Ángel Sartori, national director at the Agricultural and Livestock Service, highlighted the advances to the Lobseinbotrana control program headed by his institution and the special development of its new product that helps the environment. “The work that the INIA and other agencies have done in this project has maximum importance. This is a plague that can represent regulations to trade our fruits and we have achieved auspicious results to date. This is an additional work that we are doing with the use of sexual confounders and with the sterile insect technique. Each day there are more worries expressed by consumers of agrochemicals, so finding an environment friendly product has a dual purpose to control the plague without contamination,” affirmed the National Director of the service after a symposium.
 Eduardo Tapia, INIA researcher. |
Eduardo Tapia, a researcher at INIA La Platina, valued this alternative of a friendly biological product that allows a good control of Lobesia botrana. “The idea was born from the necessity of making agriculture more sustainable. Different INIA researchers have gathered and we through how to address this problem. Different strategies, techniques, and knowledge took place and from this work came this bio-product. Therefore, the final consumer would be acquiring a new product with a lower chemical load that translates into an innocuous feeding,” said Eduardo Tapia.
The researcher took advantage of the event to announce when the product will be available for agricultural and domestic use. “We want to tell the farmer and the housewife to not fear this and other options. We are working to make this product compatible with its management and any person could use it. Surely, they could acquire it in the next season, once we are in an experimental stage. For now, we are going to provide it freely within our units and right after INIA will make a bid to some input producer to make it accessible to all people,” he added.
Source: AgroNews
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