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Chapter 13
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-6684-2423-0.ch013
ABSTRACT
The entire world has realized the danger of chemical pesticides because of their harmful impact on en-
vironment, biodiversity, and human health as a result of the accumulation of pesticides in the food and
water chain and the outbreak of epidemic diseases such as cancer, kidney failure, and liver epidemic,
which entails the cost of the state many funds to control these diseases. We must start changing the trend
of the world by using biological control methods as alternatives to pesticides in order to eat healthy and
safe food, raise soil fertility, increase biodiversity, and maintain the period of postharvest in the long
term in addition to the booming economic aspect of the individual and society. The international organic
agriculture law is concerned with controlling any diseases on plants and is prohibited from using any
pesticides during the production, harvesting, processing, handling, and trading of organic crops.
BACKGROUND
Recently, human realized that using many chemical pesticides might have injury on the environment and
human health because it highly toxic substances in agricultural, which led to great disturbance in the
biological balance. This disturbance led to the appearance of new pests, caused reduction in number of
natural enemies and increased the accumulated toxic chemicals in human food chain. In 2009, the new
law Council Regulation of organic agriculture farming was issued in European Community (EC) No.
834/2007 in combination with 889/2008 on organic production and labeling of organic products and
repealing regulation European Economic Community (EEC) No. 2092/91 came into force (Mikkelsen
and Schluter, 2009). New group of food products appeared in the markets under different names, like
Biological Control of Some
Fruit Plants Under Organic
Agriculture Systems:
Grapes
Mohamed Farouk Attya Ahmed
Central Laboratory of Organic Agriculture (CLOA), Agricultural Research Center, Egypt