At the start of every farming season, they loan fertiliser, insecticide, and fungicide to farmers, who can pay for these once their crop has been harvested.
As much as 600 parts per million of the gas an hour could have filled a poorly ventilated room, but federal guidelines say workers shouldn't be exposed to more than an average of 10ppm per day of the gas, which is used to manufacture insecticide and fungicide.
Coca-Cola, which had to make the largest product recall in its history, blamed tainted carbon dioxide and fungicide.
Depending on exactly how it is enacted, the legislation could outlaw all but one of the pyrethroids, a widely used class of insecticides; triazole, a fungicide used to protect cereal crops; and dithiocarbamate, a herbicide that controls a cereal-strangling weed called black grass.
Too rigid an insistence on organic farming's somewhat arbitrary rules, then copper, a heavy metal, can be used as an organic fungicide because it is traditional can actually hinder the adoption of greener agricultural techniques.
But once more the export industry is fighting to survive and this time, on two fronts.First, Black Sigatoka, a disease which blackens leaves and can halve yields, is showing resistance to the fungicide used to combat it.
(See herbicide; insecticide; fungicide; fumigant).
Control includes growing resistant varieties in noninfested soil, treating seeds with a fungicide, using disease-free transplants, and destroying infected plants or plant parts before the spores are released.
Pesticides are usually classed according to the organism they control: for example, bactericide, fungicide, nematicide, miticide, insecticide, rodenticide, and herbicide.
Coffee rust can be partially controlled by the timely application of fungicide sprays during wet seasons.
Pentachlorophenol (PCP) is a disinfectant, a fungicide, and an extremely effective preservative for wood.
