Healthy Crops: A New Agricultural RevolutionThis work powerfully asserts the idea that rather than using pesticides, the key to helping crops resist attacks from pests is to improve their strength through natural processes. Many of industrial agriculture's fundamental principles for fighting disease, in particular the reliance on pesticides and fertilizers, are explained and convincingly challenged and a new set of guiding principles for an ecological agricultural system are presented as a genuine alternative to the widespread use of chemicals. |
Contents
Introduction | 7 |
Resurgence of Diseases and Pest Damage Brought About | 13 |
The Repercussions of Pesticides on the Physiology | 37 |
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