Using biological means to combat crop pests

San Antonio de los Baños, Artemisa, Cuba. -The Entomophages and Entomopathogens Center (CREE), located in the Agricultural Production Cooperative Augusto Cesar Sandino in the territory produces effective biological means to fight pests and diseases affecting crops.
This method is applied to tobacco crops, so Lázaro Peña Tobacco Enterprise use it for biological control in this season.
For its use are based on the production of beneficial arthropods, entomophagous, creators parasites and entomopathogenic microorganisms that are bacteria and fungi that apply to the regulation of pests on agricultural crops.
CREE reproduce large volumes of varieties of bioregulators as Trichogramma parasites that clog the egg spring of cassava, and are applied in the cultivation of corn, cabbage and pumpkin. According to entomopathogens use some means to protect the crops of sweet potato, pineapple, banana, potatoes, beans and vegetables.
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