Pesticide
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The pilot project, launched in 2015 with support from TechnoServe and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, has led to a 60% decline in
pesticide
use and a 100% increase in yields.
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In fact, my involvement in the whole
pesticide
issue was sort of a surprise as well when I was approached by the largest chemical company in the world and they asked me if I would evaluate how atrazine affected amphibians, or my frogs.
Both have a side benefit, which is that we reduce
pesticide
use tremendously.
Bt corn is a corn that creates its own
pesticide
to kill a corn borer.
Recently, researchers from Penn State University have started looking at the
pesticide
residue in the loads of pollen that bees carry home as food, and they've found that every batch of pollen that a honeybee collects has at least six detectable pesticides in it, and this includes every class of insecticides, herbicides, fungicides, and even inert and unlabeled ingredients that are part of the
pesticide
formulation that can be more toxic than the active ingredient.
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