Alternativas de producción de bioplaguicidas microbianos a base de hongos: el caso de América Latina y El Caribe

Alternativas de producción de bioplaguicidas microbianos a base de hongos: el caso de América Latina y El Caribe

Eddy J. Bautista, Leyanis Mesa, Martha Isabel Gómez Alvarez

The adoption rate of biopesticide worldwide has been increased because of the consumer ́s growinglevel of awareness about the negative impact of the synthetic pesticides over the environment and thehuman health. Nonetheless, biopesticides today hold just 5% of the total crop protection market. Thissegment would increase with a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 15-20% until 2020. Businessanalysts think that this growing will be guided by world regions such as Europe and Latin Americadriven by the new laws and the new resistant pests, respectively. The demand of this growing marketrequires a cost-efficient and reliable process of mass production, with good yield, and with a goodquality product. Therefore, this article presents a critical review about technical points of the differentkinds of fermentation systems, which are usually used in the production of microbial biopesticides withfungi as the active ingredient (mycoplaguicides). Also, it has a survey about the typical substrates usedand the potential application of agroindustrial wastes as substrates. As well, a broad view isintroduced about the mycopesticides production in Latin America and the Caribbean. Finally, thearticle shows future perspectives on research and development of mycopesticides production.

2018

Biopesticides, Fermentation, Separation, mycopesticides, substrates

10.17268/sci.agropecu.2018.04.15

Scientia Agropecuaria

Universidad Nacional de Trujillo

Agriculture (General), Agriculture