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Bhattacharyya, Pranab Interaction of Metarhizium anisopliae Against Emergent Insect Pest Problems in the North-Eastern Tea Industry Mendeley Data Tea, which is a popular non-alcoholic protective beverage, offers numer ous health benefits such as anti-inflammatory, antioxidant, anticancerous, and weight-loss effects. However, the moist and rain-fed conditions prevailing in the tea ecosystem favor rapid surveillance of devastating pests and pathogens, thus requir ing constant application of plant protection formulations, including the agrochemi cals, pesticides, and fertilizers to maintain bush health and quality tea production. The injudicious and rapid usage of chemical compounds has negative consequences, as the former deteriorates the native soil and environment, causing disruption of the active microbial gene pool in the rhizosphere and possessing an increased risk of pesticide resistance, and maximum residue limits. In intriguing of the above, exploiting the potential of alternative, non-chemical, and sustainable pest manage ment tactics like entomopathogen fungi under integrated pest management has recently gained momentum as it is convinced that biocontrol agents, including the microbial biopesticides, are free of toxic chemicals and other harmful ingredi ents. The current article explores the interaction of Metarhizium anisopliae as a prominent entomopathogenic fungi for the sustainable management of emergent insect pest populations in North-Eastern tea industry. Additionally, recent trends in research on entomopathogen-mediated pest management in tea has been highlighted to provide a more dedicated web interface using bibliometrics and biblioshiny. Insect Pest Management Entomopathogenic Fungi Agroecosystem Sustainability Tea Biological Control Dataset doi:10.17632/5tb26cv2k5.1 oai:data.mendeley.com/5tb26cv2k5.1 Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 https://data.mendeley.com/datasets/5tb26cv2k5 2025-10-10T09:40:04Z