Did You Know? While pesticides had existed for centuries, World Wars I and II served as a watershed for the modern agrochemical industry. Chemicals and technologies developed for warfare, were later focused on the farm. 1922 - Crop dusting on cotton began. 1939 - Insecticidal properties of DDT were discovered by…
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As per the 2010 FAO world agriculture statistics, India is the world's largest producer of many fresh fruits and vegetables, milk, major spices, select fibrous crops such as jute, staples such as millets and castor oil seed. India is the second largest producer of wheat and rice, the world's major…
Inspired by mushrooms, Sebastian Cox is making furniture from fungus. Eighteen months after first finding two sticks held together by fungus, Cox stood holding a fully formed, fungus-made lamp and stool in his workshop in southeast London. A furniture maker by profession, Cox has focused on making wooden goods with…
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