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All that says is "Farmers can use less spray pesticides when they plant GMO crops. From a paper: "On whether RR soybean systems reduce pesticide use and incre
by reducesuffering 3y ago
All that says is "Farmers can use less spray pesticides when they plant GMO crops.
From a paper:
"On whether RR soybean systems reduce pesticide use and increase grower profits,
our analysis shows that –
• RR soybean systems are largely dependent on herbicides and hence are not likely
to reduce herbicide use or reliance. Claims otherwise are based on incomplete
information or analytically flawed comparisons that do not tell the whole story.
• Farmers growing RR soybeans used 2 to 5 times more herbicide measured in
pounds applied per acre, compared to the other popular weed management
systems used on most soybean fields not planted to RR varieties in 1998. RR
herbicide use exceeds the level on many farms using multitactic Integrated Weed
Management systems by a factor of 10 or more."
https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.41.823&rep=rep1&type=pdf https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.41...
- oooyay 3y agoThere's meta analysis that shows on average the statement is true: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4218791/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4218791/ even in general