Few gardeners can afford chemical pesticides or fertilizers.
Our scheme reduced the range and volume by using alternatives to chemical pesticides and by taking a holistic approach to growing.
Besides increasing grape output, disease-resistant vines should require less chemical pesticide spraying, scientists say.
Systemic insecticides are chemical pesticides that are absorbed into the tissues of plants.
In the vineyard they avoid chemical pesticides and herbicides, plow the fields and pick by hand.
Today, most farmers use chemical pesticides, which can be environmentally hazardous.
Biopesticides have proven to be as effective as chemical pesticides in many cases.
It is important because crop pests become resistant to chemical pesticides.
Steingraber stresses issues such as chemical pesticides being rooted indirectly to our body.
But he stressed that the viruses would most likely be used with other biological and chemical pesticides.