The last year has seen a growing public concern over the use of chemical pesticides for the control of insect pests in cotton at a time when the Cotton Industry itself is still facing the real risk that these chemical

Selection of the area of irrigated cotton to plant is a perennial problem.

Today's rising environmental consciousness is having a real influence on consumers' decision-making about their product purchases.

Small parasitic wasps, scientifically known as Trichogramma, are used as biological control agents of moth pests in overseas countries, thereby reducing the need to use insecticides.

As cotton is naturally sensitive to a range of herbicides used for the control of broadleaf weeds, post-emergence suppression of such weeds is limited to relatively inefficient lay-by herbicides and mechanical means i