Advance Research in Sciences (ARS) How to cite this article; Oros G (2023) The Need for Pest Control and the Possibilities of Pesticide Development in Accordance with the Requirements of Safe Food Production (Review).Adv Res Sci 1: 1001 Volume 1, Issue 1, 2023 Article Information Received date : 08 February, 2023 Published date: 14 March, 2023 *Corresponding author Gyula Oros, Plant Protection Institute HAS, H-1525 Budapest 114, P. O. Box 102, Hungary. DOI: 10.54026/ARS/1001 Keywords Phytopathogen; Plant Disease; Bacteria; Fungi; Pesticide; Pest Control; Fungicide; Bacteri-cide; Patent Distributed under: Creative Commons CC-BY 4.0 Review Article e Need for Pest Control and the Possibilities of Pesticide Development in Accordance with the Requirements of Safe Food Production Gyula Oros * Plant Protection Institute HAS, H-1525 Budapest 114, P. O. Box 102, Hungary Antecendents e millennia-long history of plant cultivation is also the history of protection against factors that threaten crops. e tools used (Figure 1) varied from age to age, depending on the current technical development of the given society, but they were usually the most eective tools available. Nowadays, the use of various chemicals is the most eective plant protection method. However, it is necessary to underline that the tools used in plant protection are not applied to increase the amount of the yield, but to increase the safety of the harvest. e goal is not to eradicate living organisms, but to reduce the activity of pests to a level that is negligible from an eco- nomic point of view. So, the pest management is a set of procedures to guarantee crop safety. e widespread use of synthetic chemicals (xenobiotics) is a consequence of the technical/scientic development of the last century and the transformation of the social structure (Figure 2). Abstract The scientic and technical development that made the industrial revolution possible not only transormed the social structure worldwide, but also imposed new requirements on ood production and necessitated changes in plant cultivation procedures. Within this, pest control management underwent a radical change in the last century, and the use o pesticides (synthetic chemicals) became widespread. The main reason or this is the maintenance o the protability o the production by guaranteeing the reliability o the harvest. This latter aspect usually is not taken into the account by those who oppose the use o pesticides. In the past hal century, the pesticide assortment has undergone signicant changes, currently around 2000 dierent active ingredients are available, among which the proportion o synthetic super selective molecules has increased. Although this contributed to the reduction o concerns about their use, the widespread application o these mono site inhibitors imposed new requirements. On the one hand due to the acquired resistance against them within the pest population, and on the other hand due to the appearance o new, previously insignicant pest species. Among them, the phytopathogenic bacteria are o increasing importance: we currently do not have a sufciently eective preparation that can be used to control them widely in plant cultivation. There is an urgent need to develop pesticides suitable or combating newly emerging diseases. In this paper, the author examined this question rom the inventor’s point o view, sharing the experiences o six decades o research in this area. Figure 1: Recently used pest management practices in plant protection and their relationships.