Decentralized biotechnologies in production-use networks of biological control agents

Abstract

These units are located in agricultural territories and are managed by the farmers’ organizations themselves, an experience that originated in the 1940s in the old laboratories for the artisanal multiplication of Lixophaga diatraeae, a very effective parasitoid in the biological control of the sugar cane borer; which was subsequently continued in the CREE model and is considered a very valuable strategy for the adoption of biological control by farmers and contributes to the sustainability of this technology.3