The fact that there are efficient natural enemies for pest restraint in South America gives hope for biologic control options in Europe , should the pests settle here , says professor Joop van Lenteren from Wageningen University & Research . Together with three colleagues from Latin America , he published a record about biologic gadfly ascendency in South America and the Caribbean last calendar week .
The Good Book entitled ' Biological Control in Latin America and the Caribbean ' provides a complete overview of the account and current position of biologic command in all the countries in South America and the Caribbean island . The book describe a large identification number of projects , many of which have been successfully applied for decennium .
Many of those projects were , until now , scarcely or not at all do it out of doors of South America . " The bragging surprisal , however , was the huge land area - more than 60 million hectares - on which biological control is apply in this region , " says Joop .
But what exactly does the ordinary agriculturalist need to sleep together about biological control in South America and the Caribbean?For growers , the book is particularly interesting to see in how many unlike crop biologic restraint is used in South America and the Caribbean and not only to battle worm and mite plague , but specially also to battle diseases in the soil and above ground .
What can the intermediate grower find out from the situation over there?As for greenhouse cultivations , the situation is not very unlike from Europe . However , some pests are present in nursery that we do not have in Europe yet , that are controlled by lifelike enemies . Some of those pests have already by the way been come up in Europe , but have been destroyed in meter . The fact that there are efficient natural enemies in South America gift good hope for biologic ascendence pick in Europe , should these gadfly settle here .
There are major deviation with Europe when it come to open field cultivation : in South America there is much more biological dominance of pests in open field of force cultivations . An interesting deterrent example is the use of biologic control on virtually 13,000 hectares of asparagus in Peru .
What piece of music of noesis from the Netherlands has recently aid growers in South America and the Caribbean the most?The Netherlands has made an authoritative contribution both in the Caribbean and on the South American continent by bring home the bacon noesis for biologic control of pest in protect finish , but also for pests in open field culture where the same natural enemies can be used that are apply in greenhouses in the Netherlands .
An good example is the combating of folio flies with leechlike white Anglo-Saxon Protestant in melon vine culture in the north east of Brazil . Furthermore , the Dutch biological restraint industry is active in a issue of countries in the region .
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