Facts on pesticides..

New Internationalist › Nbr. 2000, January 2000

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Facts on pesticides..

THE PESTICIDE INDUSTRY

Pesticides are big business. If you drew a chart of the growth of the industry from virtually zero in the 1940s to an agrochemical market worth $31 billion in 1998, the incline would resemble a cliff face. And it grows each year: 1998 was up 5% on 1997.(1) Corporations are constantly merging to form ever-bigger conglomeratio...

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