Using of Biotechnology in Controlling Pests

The efficiency gains in the production chains were only possible thanks to the entrepreneurship and management of rural producers, who adopted the most modern technologies available for science. Among these, stand: the tillage, fertilization and soil correction, the techniques of integrated management of invasive plants, diseases and insect pest and the growing adoption of improved seeds with high productive capacity. It is observed that the simple hybrids corn came to dominate the market of seeds embedded in technologies and seeds are more easily adopted by producers. Productivity gains in agriculture are satisfactory with the use of genetically modified plants and the dependency of application of insecticides on crops becomes smaller over the years. The consequences of the development and marketing of corn genetically modified (GM) have been profound, and in 2011 the area planted in the United States of America (USA) with at least one GM trait corresponded to more than 88% of was over acreage.

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Profesora Dra. Magda Mahmoud Amin Sabbour. Estudió en el Departamento de Entomología de la Facultad de Ciencias de la Universidad de El Cairo. Trabaja en el Centro Nacional de Investigación, en el Departamento de Agricultura y Biología, Plagas y Protección Vegetal. La Dra. Sabbour es experta en entomología, patología de insectos, nanotecnología y biología.