[Enewstoday Busan Gyeongnam Reporter Park Heung-sik] The Uiryeong Insect Ecology Learning Center, run by Uiryeong-gun (Governor Oh Tae-wan), distributes pest control kits to farmhouses in the jurisdiction so that local farmers can produce clean crops. He said that he had achieved success in pest control in an eco-friendly manner.

The pest control kit is an eco-friendly control technology for major pests with the support of the Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs 'Industrialization technology development for responding to crop viruses and pests' project in collaboration with Kangwon National University and Joongbu Biotech Co., Ltd. has been developed

From July 2021 to March 2022, about 20,000 of the Chammooth flower stink bugs were supplied to facility cultivation farms in Uiryeong, reducing the use of conventionally used pesticides while preventing pests and diseases through eco-friendly control. As a photophobic natural predator, it is an insect that preys on aphids, whiteflies, shield bugs, and moths that occur mainly in facility greenhouses.

Source: Enewstoday (http://www.enewstoday.co.kr)