AGRICULTURAL PESTICIDES - A FRIEND AND A FOE?

FRANCISCO T. PILI
BOB CERU

INTRODUCTION

After World War II, many new insecticides fungicides and herbicides, collectively known as "pesticides" have been manufactured and put on sale in markets throughout the world. Due to the wide spread use of these pesticides, every human being is now subjected to contact with dangerous chemicals from the moment of conception until death. In less than three decades of their use, the synthetic pesticides have been so thoroughly distributed all over the world that they are present virtually everywhere.


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