Busan Agricultural Technology Center Promotes Eco-Friendly Agricultural Technology Pilot Project as Pesticide Alternative

Eco-friendly Safe Agricultural Products Production

Microbial Pest Control

Diluted Spraying with Water Using a Sprayer

Busan Agricultural Technology Center is promoting an eco-friendly agricultural technology pilot project that controls agricultural pests using beneficial entomopathogenic microorganisms.

Pilot project of eco-friendly agricultural technology (microbial spraying scene).

The microorganism distributed through this pilot project is a domestic indigenous strain called ‘Isaria fumosorosea FG340,’ which penetrates the epidermis of pests such as the larvae of the diamondback moth that directly chew on plants and thrips, which are virus vectors, using the pest’s internal components as nutrients or spreading toxins inside the pest to kill it.

However, it is harmless to humans and crops, and it is a highly convenient technology that can be easily diluted in water and sprayed with a sprayer like general pesticides.

This strain controlled 67.7% of diamondback moths and 68.8% of cucumber thrips with a single treatment, and when treated three times at one-week intervals, the control effect on cucumber thrips reached 81.5%, leading to patent registration and announcement as an organic agricultural material (Announcement No. 2-5-198) by the Rural Development Administration.

Kim Jeong-guk, head of the Agricultural Technology Center, said, “Through this pilot project, eco-friendly crop cultivation farms have a wider range of choices for effective and convenient pest control,” adding, “This year, we have selected five farms cultivating leafy vegetables such as perilla leaves, spinach, chamnamul, and lettuce for pilot technology dissemination, and plan to gradually expand it considering farm satisfaction in the future.”

For more details, please contact the Agricultural Technology Team at the City Agricultural Technology Center.