noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
chemical
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Four more test orchards were managed conventionally, with the full arsenal of chemical fertilisers and pesticides .
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Our scheme reduced the range and volume by using alternatives to chemical pesticides and by taking a holistic approach to growing.
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Organically farmed crops are not sprayed with any chemical pesticides and are not treated with nitrogen, potassium or phosphate fertilisers.
new
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Evaluating the toxicology of any new pesticide is now so expensive that few new compounds are reaching the market.
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Cloning produces large numbers of identical organisms for research purposes, such as the initial testing of new pesticides on plant species.
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It is claimed that the new levels of pesticide do not pose a risk to health.
■ NOUN
residue
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All foods are organically grown, except when foods with pesticide residues are used for testing.
use
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Attempts will be made to reduce pesticide use in water catchment areas.
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Over the same period, pesticide use has decreased by 47 percent.
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In the short term it proposes increased monitoring to ensure that the highest standards of pesticide use are maintained.
■ VERB
reduce
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Attempts will be made to reduce pesticide use in water catchment areas.
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Since its establishment, it has warned the newly-privatized water companies on 12 occasions to reduce pesticides in drinking water.
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Sainsbury's works with suppliers to find ways of reducing the use of pesticides to a minimum.
spray
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Avoid spraying your plants with pesticides , grow plants that encourage beneficial insects such as carrots, parsley, parsnips and nettles.
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If the food market expands, they reason, it could reduce the need to spray crops with harmful pesticides .
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Dead birds are found almost every morning after greenkeepers have sprayed pesticide at night.
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Our crops are sprayed with pesticides , some of which are also classified as EDCs.
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Organically farmed crops are not sprayed with any chemical pesticides and are not treated with nitrogen, potassium or phosphate fertilisers.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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And many pests have developed resistance to the most commonly used pesticides.
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Attempts will be made to reduce pesticide use in water catchment areas.
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Avoid spraying your plants with pesticides, grow plants that encourage beneficial insects such as carrots, parsley, parsnips and nettles.
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By 7am his eyes will be weeping and raw from the sulphurous pesticides in the soil.
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Del Norte County pesticide storage area near Crescent City.
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More research is needed to optimise the size of droplets and their charge-to-mass ratio for different pesticides and targets.
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So, what exactly is going on in the pesticide world to reduce me to such grovelling gratitude?
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We never use pesticides or insecticides and this is the wonderful result.