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==Incesticides in Agriculture==
==Incesticides in Agriculture==
Incesticides have been used since the inception of the [[Green Revolution]] in agriculture. Years of research and testing have resulted in a number of safe agricultural practices. Farmers should remember to destroy their crop remains following last harvest as well as to control weed hosts in unused fields, along field edges, and in the production fields. It is a good practice to rotate vegetable crops with cover crops or other crops that are not susceptible to the same pests. Fallowing and clean cultivation reduces many pests in fields not being used. Flooding with water where mosquitoes are not an issue may be done for 6 to 8 weeks once a year and can reduce many pests. These measures might be considered where sod or crop growth is not needed to reduce plant bed erosion and sand blasting.
Incesticides have been used since the inception of the [[Green Revolution]] in agriculture. Years of research and testing have resulted in a number of safe agricultural practices. Farmers should remember to destroy their crop remains following last harvest as well as to control weed hosts in unused fields, along field edges, and in the production fields. It is a good practice to rotate vegetable crops with cover crops or other crops that are not susceptible to the same pests. Fallowing and clean cultivation reduces many pests in fields not being used. Flooding with water where mosquitoes are not an issue may be done for 6 to 8 weeks once a year and can reduce many pests. These measures might be considered where sod or crop growth is not needed to reduce plant bed erosion and sand blasting.
==DDT==
A proven anti-mosquito agent that was able to eradicate [[malaria]] in America and elsewhere in the first world was viciously and unfairly attacked by [[Rachel Carson]] and the environmentalist movement. Millions of people (some estimate over 300 million) have died as a result of US environmental regulations designed to protect endangered species. Furthermore, a DDT ban with the WHO has resulted in many needless deaths that could have otherwise prevented. [http://www.cid.harvard.edu/cidinthenews/articles/nr_051401.html] Now, the head of the World Bank, prominent [[neo-conservative]] [[Paul Wolfowitz]], has embraced the life-saving use of DDT. [http://www.fightingmalaria.org/]