Third, the IPM intervention in the present study was successful in decreasing residents' use of, and potential exposure to, pesticides by reducing the application of spray pesticides by commercial applicators and by reducing the perceived need for the use of aerosol sprays and total release foggers by residents themselves.
Monsanto, for example, claims that over the last 10 years, use of its genetically modified seeds has reduced the application of pesticides by 172,000 metric tons.
Dr. Vandermeer said that longer-term solutions should include scaling back the size of today's vast, uninterrupted plantations and reducing the application of pesticides as much as possible so that natural controls can reassert themselves.
But the devil is in the details and the Conservatives are looking to reduce the application of Strasbourg case law, rather than the convention rights themselves, in British courts, opening the way for more deportations of terrorism suspects, failed asylum seekers and other controversial areas.
All these studies have shown use of vermicompost to be able to reduce the application of mineral fertilizers substantially without affecting the crop yield.
Exposure to counter-stereotypic gender role models (e.g., a woman engineer) has been shown to successfully reduce the application of biased gender stereotypes.
Leaving main crops untouched for food and feed purposes, the additional seeding of catch crops after the harvest of main crops reduces the risk of erosion and nitrate leaching as well reduce the application of mineral fertiliser.
The improvement in the hydrophobicity of muga fiber in order to reduce the application of natural/artificial dye on the fiber and to make it more hygienic to the skin and comfortable to wear is another motivation of this work.
In 2015, China proposed a "two-reduction" strategy, i.e. reducing the application of chemical fertilizers and pesticides, which aims to fight against pollution problem in agriculture and improve food safety in China.
This exclusion may reduce the application of plating, in particular to retrofitting buildings where ductility is often a requirement, or it may require the development of a radically different approach to design that does not rely implicitly on ductility.
