Despite the vast resources spent each year on
crop protection applications, crop damage is estimated at 37 percent due to plant pests and diseases occurring to a large extent because of loss of pesticide efficacy related to pesticide clumping, drying and run off.
Not exact matches
The local cultivation practices currently followed for conventional rice varieties, including the
application of fertilizer,
crop protection products, and labor, are directly applicable to the cultivation of those varieties containing the GR2E nutritional trait.
Corn yields with today's hybrids do have the potential to increase with the
application of
protection chemicals and by making
crop nutrients more plant - available,» she said.
CropLife America, which represents pesticide manufacturers, said in a statement to EHN that the EPA's review of fungicides is «rigorous» and that «new
application technologies by farmers will serve to further minimize any potential environmental impacts of
crop protection products.»
«Since plant immunisation by BABA is long - lasting, primed
crops would require fewer
applications of fungicides, thereby increasing sustainability of
crop protection.