{"id":1487,"date":"2019-07-31T13:29:29","date_gmt":"2019-07-31T12:29:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inra.fr\/agronomy\/?p=1487"},"modified":"2019-07-31T13:32:27","modified_gmt":"2019-07-31T12:32:27","slug":"could-homemade-plant-based-pesticides-be-an-alternative-to-conventional-pesticides","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/agronomy\/2019\/07\/31\/could-homemade-plant-based-pesticides-be-an-alternative-to-conventional-pesticides\/","title":{"rendered":"Could homemade plant-based pesticides be an alternative to conventional pesticides?"},"content":{"rendered":"<script type='text\/javascript' src='https:\/\/d1bxh8uas1mnw7.cloudfront.net\/assets\/embed.js'><\/script><figure id=\"attachment_1488\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1488\" style=\"width: 290px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1488 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inra.fr\/agronomy\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2019\/07\/Women-preparing-homemade-pesticides-in-India_Photo-credit-Basudev-Mahapatra-300x161.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"161\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/agronomy\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2019\/07\/Women-preparing-homemade-pesticides-in-India_Photo-credit-Basudev-Mahapatra-300x161.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/agronomy\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2019\/07\/Women-preparing-homemade-pesticides-in-India_Photo-credit-Basudev-Mahapatra-768x413.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/agronomy\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2019\/07\/Women-preparing-homemade-pesticides-in-India_Photo-credit-Basudev-Mahapatra.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/agronomy\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2019\/07\/Women-preparing-homemade-pesticides-in-India_Photo-credit-Basudev-Mahapatra-640x344.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1488\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Picture copyright Basudev Mahapatra<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Smallholder farmers in low-income countries often use plant extracts (\u2018botanicals\u2019) to prepare homemade pesticides. This practice has remained controversial due to a perceived lack of evidence that such home remedies are effective and safe. Scientists <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1007\/s13593-019-0583-1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Dougoud et al.<\/a> reviewed commonly used botanicals and found evidence that they can reduce pests and crop damage. However, results are highly variable, depending on how the homemade pesticides are prepared and used.<\/p>\n<div class='altmetric-embed altmetric-embed' data-badge-type='donut' data-doi='10.1007\/s13593-019-0583-1'   ><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Smallholder farmers in low-income countries often use plant extracts (\u2018botanicals\u2019) to prepare homemade pesticides. This practice has remained controversial due to a perceived lack of evidence that such home remedies are effective and safe. Scientists Dougoud et al. reviewed commonly used botanicals and found evidence that they can reduce pests and crop damage. However, results &#8230; <a title=\"Could homemade plant-based pesticides be an alternative to conventional pesticides?\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/agronomy\/2019\/07\/31\/could-homemade-plant-based-pesticides-be-an-alternative-to-conventional-pesticides\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Could homemade plant-based pesticides be an alternative to conventional pesticides?\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":74,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crop-protection"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/agronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/agronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/agronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/agronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/74"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/agronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1487"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/agronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1487\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/agronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/agronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/agronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}