Identifying and investigating pesticide application types to promote a more sustainable pesticide use: the case of smallholders in Boyacá, Colombia [PDF]
, 2010 The present paper investigates pesticide application types adopted by smallholder potato producers in the Department of Boyacá , Colombia. In this region, environmental, health and adverse economic effects due to pesticide mis- or over-use respectively ...
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Determination of chlorantraniliprole 18.5% SC in the paddy ecosystem and its risk assessment
Scientific Reports, 2023 Chlorantraniliprole belongsto theanthranilic diamide group is widely used against broad range of lepidopteron pests in a variety of vegetable and rice pests includingyellow rice stem borer and leaf folder.
Saraswati Mahato +7 more
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Dissipation of methomyl residues in tomato fruits, soil and water using LC-MS/MS
Journal of Plant Protection Research, 2019 Tomato is an economically important vegetable crop which is attacked heavily by insect pests leading to reduction of yield and quality of the fruits. Field experiments were carried out to investigate the dissipation of methomyl (a common insecticide ...
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Occurrence of metolachlor and trifluralin losses in the Save river agricultural catchment during floods [PDF]
, 2011 Rising pesticide levels in streams draining intensively managed agricultural land have a detrimental effect on aquatic ecosystems and render water unfit for human consumption.
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Scientific Reports, 2023 Soil salinization substantially hampers the growth and development of wheat, potentially leading to plant death in severe cases, thus reducing grain yield and quality. This phenomenon poses a significant threat to food security in China.
Aohui Han +7 more
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Food Safety, 2023 Food Safety Commission of Japan (FSCJ) conducted a risk assessment of a sulfonanilide herbicide, dimesulfazet (CAS No. 1215111-77-5), based on results from various studies. The data used in the assessment include the fate in plants (paddy rice), residues in crops, fate in animals (rats), subacute toxicity (rats, mice and dogs), chronic toxicity (dogs),
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Scientific Reports, 2022 The use of biopesticides has gradually become essential to ensure food security and sustainable agricultural production. Nevertheless, the use of single biopesticides is frequently suboptimal in agricultural production given the diversity of biotic and ...
Jingchong Li +6 more
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Plants, 2023 Anastatus japonicus Ashmead is an egg parasitoid wasp important for the biological control of fruit crop pests. The olfaction of parasitoids is crucial to searching for host pests in fruit crops.
Hai-Xia Zhan +3 more
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1973 Evaluations of Some Pesticide Residues in Food: The Monographs. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Rome, 1975. 491 p. Available from Unipub, Box 433, Murray Hill Station, New York, NY 10016. $15.00. [PDF]
, 2017 (excerpt) The evaluations of residues on foodstuffs contained in these monographs were prepared by a joint meeting of an FA0 expert committee and a WHO expert committee on pesticide residues that met in Geneva and produced its report Pesticide Residues ...
Brown, A. W. A
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Pesticides Handling Practices Among Potato Growers in Kavrepalanchok, Nepal [PDF]
, 2020 The rate of pesticide application in the agricultural field is surging. Farmers are getting exposed to pesticide hazards from the misuse and unsafe handling of pesticides.
Katuwal, K. (Krishna) +3 more
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