It prohibits the use of synthetic chemical pesticides, with some pragmatic exceptions.

Both have a side benefit, which is that we reduce pesticide use tremendously.

A viable resistance management strategy is to rotate the use of different effective insecticides.

Bacteria can also be used in the place of pesticides in the biological pest control.

However, the use of pesticides has increased staggeringly from 1950, and presently approximately 2.5 million tons of industrial pesticides are used each year.

However, new pests have emerged in Bt cotton, leading to higher use of pesticides.

Or you could spray.

Well, it has been calculated that if we were to remove bats from the equation, we're going to have to then use insecticides to remove all those pest insects that feed on our agricultural crops.

Consider, for example, that, because GM crops require less chemical pesticide, fewer farmers and their families risk being poisoned by runoff into waterways and ground water.

Meanwhile, the benefits of GM crop cultivation include higher yields, lower use of chemical pesticides, and biofuel production.

You can spray the problem is there are environmental issues.

Hence, it may be necessary in the short to medium term, to maintain the use of DDT as an option for rotation with other insecticides, until a suitable alternative is available.

These are the 15 commodities that fundamentally pose the biggest threats to these places because of deforestation, soil loss, water use, pesticide use, over fishing, etc.

And look at the overall pesticide industry in all the crops throughout the world.

Sami tried to poison Layla with a mixture of sleeping pills and pesticides.

Inability to import various chemical substances such as pesticides and rare elements.

like pesticides and herbicides to kill weeds and bugs.

This could totally revamp the pesticide industries throughout the world.

Malaria can be brought under decisive control through bed nets, indoor spraying of insecticides, and making medicines freely available to poor people in malaria prone villages.

Environmental issues The main environmental issues affecting Colombia are deforestation soil and water quality damage from overuse of pesticides air pollution, especially in Bogota, from vehicle emissions and other main cities.

In general, the levels of the MRLs are fixed on the basis of good agricultural practice (GAP).

I've been told by executives of the pesticide industry that they have ever witnessed.

And I believe, many scientists believe that pesticides are an important part of that decline.

These networks could also be used to complement and validate country information regarding insecticide efficacy.

The multipurpose use of such insecticides is therefore of primary concern.

The cost of pesticides for farmers has increased 13 fold in the same period.

From 1996 to 2009, the amount of pesticide that was sprayed on crops worldwide fell by 393 million kilograms 1.4 times the total amount of pesticide applied annually to crops in the European Union.

But it was the publication in 1962 of the book Silent Spring a polemic against the use of pesticides in agriculture by the biologist Rachel Carson that jump started the modern ecological movement.

We can't keep feeding our kids pesticides and herbicides and antibiotics and hormones.

Just as invasive species adapt to pesticides, most cancer cells adapt to therapies.

And fertilizers and pesticides are flowing into the bay from the golf course the pesticides killing all the larvae and little animals, fertilizer creating this beautiful plankton bloom and there's your pea soup.

This man, this lunatic farmer, doesn't use any pesticides, herbicides, or genetically modified seeds.

Many people purchase organic foods in order to avoid exposure to harmful levels of pesticides.

61. UNIDO is providing support to Myanmar for a pesticide formulation plant.

Halting of dealings with the sector by foreign firms with regard to the establishment of a laboratory to analyse agricultural pesticide and fertilizer residues.

One category of alternatives refers to direct replacement or substitute insecticides for indoor residual spraying.

In addition, crop diversification has reduced the need for costly and environmentally damaging pesticides.

One of my favorite facts is that U.S. agriculture uses 1.2 billion pounds of pesticides every year.

This is the most disruptive technology I've been told by executives of the pesticide industry that they have ever witnessed.

The Institute for the Control of Agrochemicals (CAMA) is responsible for pesticide testing, research, and use regulations, and operates under the Ministry of Agriculture.

And the latest infraction against these people is, as part of Plan Colombia, we're spraying Paraquat or Round Up, whatever it is we're defoliating thousands of acres of the Ecuadorian Amazon in our war on drugs.

It was a surprise to me as well that I would be talking about pesticides, that I'd be talking about public health, because, in fact, I never thought I would do anything useful.

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