BIOPESTICIDES - A BOON FOR AGRICULTURE AND ENVIRONMENT SUSTAINABILITY

The global population is exploding at an exponential rate and is awaited to reach roughly 9.7 billion by 2050. India in a significant evolution, India has formerly exceeded China as the world‟s most vibrant country. Tallying to protrusions from the World Population Review (WPR), India‟s population was 141.7 crore as of the end of 2022. Hence India needs a further seat on biopesticides for sustainable excrescency for furnishing safe victuals, operation of health people, biodiversity, etc. Agriculture in India is largely dependent on chemicals involving fungicides and their operation has a huge jolt on the health of humans, creatures, biodiversity, and the terrain. In 2015, the National Crimes Records Bureau (NCRB) recorded, 7672 cases of poisoning due to incidental input of germicides, out of which, 7,060 died. Moving to biopesticide is the only expressway to get relief of finessing dangerous events. Globally, biopesticides 
quantum to only 4.5% of the grand fungicides produced, and in the U.S.A. it is 6% whereas, in India, only 3%. In India, the periodic excrescency rate of biopesticide products is estimated to be 2.5%. Fungicides are restrained in India through the Germicides Act, of 1968. The union press has lately approved the Pesticides Management Bill, 2020. As of now 970 biopesticide registrants in India.   

Keyword: World Population Review (WPR), National Crimes Records Bureau (NCRB), Biopesticide.