Biopesticides usually are inherently less harmful than conventional pesticides.
In fact, new biopesticides are often registered in less than a year, compared with an average of more than three years for conventional pesticides.
In addition, EPA is registering reduced-risk conventional pesticides in increasing numbers.
An organic tomato must flourish without conventional pesticides; an organic chicken cannot be fed antibiotics.
We therefore recommend that there should be a graded timetable reduction in the use of conventional pesticides, particularly where alternatives are available.
It can also be used alone or as a complement to other management methods like the use of conventional pesticides.
Biopesticides and reduced-risk conventional pesticides often can complete the process much faster, in as little as a year in some cases.
Over the decades that pheromone pest programs have been used several disadvantages have been argued when compared to the use of conventional pesticides.
Carrots are either grown organically - without conventional pesticides - or they're not.
Organic food is produced without using most conventional pesticides, fertilizers, bioengineering, and ionizing radiation.