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(a) Organic farmers prefer biological control of diseases and pests to the use of chemicals foir the purpose justify
(b) Give example of a bacterium a fungus nand an insect that are used as biocontrol agents

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(a) chemicla methods often kills both useful and harmful life forms indiscriminately .Eradication of the creaturs that are often described as pests is not only possible but also undesirable , for without them the beneficeal predatory and parasitic insects which depends upon them as food or hosts would not be able to surive .
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