{"id":2748,"date":"2018-07-31T20:35:02","date_gmt":"2018-07-31T15:05:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cropinfo.in\/agriinfo\/?p=2748"},"modified":"2018-08-01T15:38:57","modified_gmt":"2018-08-01T10:08:57","slug":"history-of-pesticides","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cropinfo.in\/agriinfo\/history-of-pesticides\/","title":{"rendered":"History of Pesticides"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><strong>Did You Know?<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p>While pesticides had existed for centuries, World Wars I and II served as a watershed for the modern agrochemical industry.<\/p>\n<p>Chemicals and technologies developed for warfare, were\u00a0later focused on the farm.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>1922 &#8211; Crop dusting on cotton began.<\/li>\n<li>1939 &#8211; Insecticidal properties of DDT were discovered by Paul Muller.<\/li>\n<li>1943 &#8211; Organo phosphorous insecticide Parathion was synthesized.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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\u00a0later focused on the farm. 1922 &#8211; Crop dusting on cotton began. 1939 &#8211; Insecticidal properties of DDT were discovered by Paul Muller. 1943 &#8211; Organo [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,478,6,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crop-protection","category-cropinfo-brief","category-crop-community","category-pesticides","entry","owp-thumbs-layout-horizontal","owp-btn-normal","owp-tabs-layout-horizontal","has-no-thumbnails"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cropinfo.in\/agriinfo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2748","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cropinfo.in\/agriinfo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cropinfo.in\/agriinfo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cropinfo.in\/agriinfo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cropinfo.in\/agriinfo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2748"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cropinfo.in\/agriinfo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2748\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2749,"href":"https:\/\/cropinfo.in\/agriinfo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2748\/revisions\/2749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cropinfo.in\/agriinfo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cropinfo.in\/agriinfo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cropinfo.in\/agriinfo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}