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Biotech
crops reduces the use of pesticides: Monsanto
PTI
- New Delhi
Seed
producer Monsanto has claimed that pesticide use in North America
has been reduced by 21 million kgs in past few years owing to the
use of biotech crops.
The
use of pesticides has decreased in crops such as corn, canola, cotton,
squash and soyabeans, a company release said here.
The
capability to further reduce pesticide use looks even better as
the 32 biotech plants, which are currently being developed, have
the potential to decrease pesticide use by another 74 million kgs,
it said.
The
environmental lobby groups who have been waging a war against the
use of pesticides have remained silent about this very positive
environmental development, it said adding that decrease in pesticide
use has occurred due to new plant genetics developed by biotechnology.
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