ABSTRACT
2To achieve sustainable development of agriculture it is a need for advance research and development in the field of biopesticides applications which greatly reduce the environmental pollution caused by the chemical synthetic insecticides residues. Since the advent of biopesticides, a large number of products have been registered and released; some of them have played a leading role in the agriculture market. The development of biopesticide has encouraged replacing the chemical synthetic pesticide in pest management in some extent. Biopesticides and biocontrol agents have proven to be highly effective, species specific and eco-friendly in nature, leading to their adoption in pest management strategies around the world. The microbial biopesticides market constitutes about 92% of total biopesticides and there is sufficient scope for further development in agriculture, although there are challenges as well. This chapter reviews the various microbial especially fungal biopesticides, the different approaches for their production and development, field evaluation, registration and recent technological advances, and the challenges faced by the microbial biopesticide field in the future.
