Province planning to purge pesticide abuse
By Tan Zongyang and Zhao Ruixue | China Daily | Updated: 2011-05-18 07:45
Farmers spray pesticides in a wheat field in East China's Shandong province, on Tuesday. Liang Xiaopeng / for China Daily |
BEIJING / JINAN - East China's Shandong province is about to launch a licensing system in an attempt to limit the availability of pesticides, because misuse of the agricultural chemicals is a major cause of contamination in agricultural products.
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