Not AvailableNatural enemies or biocontrol agents include those organisms that are capable and
helpful in managing and suppressing the insect pests infecting field crops and causing
economic damage. The natural enemies have a major key role to play in controlling
insect pests attacking hill crops. The hill agriculture is the cultivation of field crops in
distributed patches of land in the vast matrix of forest. The crops are grown in small
patches and there is vast diversity in the type of field crops cultivated. The insect pests
are the major biotic stress causing agents in the present scenario of climate change in
hill farming and many insect pests have gained the status of major insect pest recently.
The first and foremost step taken by farmers to manage these insect pests in hill
agriculture is to allow for natural control or take up insecticide spray with locally
available, low grade insecticides. But, natural control along with human intervention to
artificially release natural enemies would be the best strategy to manage pests at lower
cost with higher effectivity. In this article we will be emphasising on major predators
and parasitoids that can be easily identified by the farmers and encourage their
population growth in order to exploit their services in pest management.Not Availabl
