Registered and unregistered botanical insecticides in Nicaragua

Abstract

In Nicaragua, it has arisen the need to deepen in the analysis of natural alternatives for the control of pests in crops, drawing attention to the application of various products of natural origin as an effective option to synthetic pesticides. For this reason, it is necessary to think of new alternatives for pest control that are more friendly to the environment and that are useful in the integrated management of pests, for this study, it was used a qualitative non-experimental research based on the descriptive method of applied research where there is no manipulation of variables, analyzing the reality or situation determined with an interpretative richness, as part of this process the compilation, systematization, with an analysis of the main botanical insecticides registered and evaluated in Nicaragua was carried out, based on the effectiveness tests that were used to register the products in the Agricultural Protection and Health Institute, the purpose of this study was to record the existing information on the use of registered and unregistered botanical insecticides in Nicaragua, in this study it was found that in Nicaragua, there has been registered 12 botanical insecticides from 2011 to 2017, all these based on aqueous extracts of plants, seeds, leaves and flowers that have been used in the crops of vegetables, fruit trees, okra, roots and tubers, for the pests control such as white flies, aphids, mites and thrips, it was also found that in Nicaragua eight investigations have been carried out in the period between May 1990 to November 2017 on the use and management of botanical insecticides based on extracts of chili, garlic, chrysanthemum, black wood and Neem in tomato, chili peper, cabbage, sorghum and cashew crops in order to control the main pests that attack these crops.