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Arguments against GM crops mostly focus on the dangers for human and animal health, risks to the environment, and whether they actually deliver on the promises to greatly increase food production, for example by making crops tolerant to pests , diseases or lack of water.
Sheepdrove wasn't organic when they took it over; it has taken five years of hard work, setting about crop rotation to fix the nitrogen, dealing with blackweed and other botanical pests , and bringing the land into a natural state of health.
The flowers are loved by bees in the same way as lavender Biodiversity is important partly because a monoculture can harbour pests and disease.
What we are clearly seeing as a result is that seed diversity is disappearing in Africa, while communities complain that the new varieties are tasteless, lack nutrition, or are more vulnerable to particular pests".
Of course, just because a small hard core of our number are sex pests , slashers, robbers and copper biters, we can't all be thus smeared.
They feed on weeds and insect larvae, and so control a variety of pests in the fields, contributing to nutrient recycling and efficiency.
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Mr Sachetti's agronomists take daily readings in the fields, checking for pests and making precise adjustments to applications of fertilisers.
Their hypothesis was that highly invasive species would have chemical weapons not found in native plants, and which pests , parasites and other plants would therefore not have evolved any resistance to.
Yields were rising, pests appeared under control and fertilisers were replenishing tired soil.
Their laboratories have poured out a glass of blessings upon the world, providing limitless supplies of insulin, novel treatments for cancer and AIDS, and crops that resist pests or don't rot.
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The primary grammatical function of "pests" is as a plural noun , referring to multiple troublesome or damaging organisms. Ludwig's examples show it functioning as the object of prepositions and verbs, indicating what is being controlled, eradicated, or resisted.
Expression frequency: Very common
