Pesticides and pest control

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About 3 billion tons of pesticides are applied each year in the world. However, despite this large amount of pesticide applied worldwide, pests, insects, weeds and plant pathogens destroy about 40° of all crops.

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Pimentel, D. (2009). Pesticides and pest control. In Integrated Pest Management (Vol. 1, pp. 83–87). Springer Netherlands. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-8992-3_3

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