Medicinal and aromatic plants and their extracts in insect pest management

Not Availablekill harmful insect pests [1]. Developing countries consider them as powerful weapons in order to enhance crop yields and to reduce the vector-borne disease burden. However, the indiscriminate and haphazard usage of pesticides poses serious negative public health impacts and adverse environmental hazard too [2,3]. It has been estimated that about 2.5 million tons of pesticides are used on crops each year and the worldwide damage caused by pesticides reaches $100 billion annually [4].Not Availabl