Fungicides vegetables/fruit/grain

Table 8.6. Determination of fungicides in fruit and vegetables and grain (from author s own files)... 

The agricultural use of pesticides such as insecticides, herbicides, and fungicides has clearly reduced crop losses due to insects, weeds, and plant diseases in the US and throughout the world. The benefits from agricultural pesticides include improved crop yields, greater availability of fruits, vegetables, and grains, and lower consumer costs (Ecobichon, 1996). 

Use pattern Tebuconazole is a broad-spectrum triazole fungicide which provides protective and, in some cases, curative activity on a wide variety of crops including cereal grains, peanuts, grapes, bananas, pome fruit, stone fruit, nuts, and vegetables... 

The major crops for agrochemical use are cotton, rice, maize, vegetables and top fruit for insecticides small grain cereals, rice, vines and top fruit for fungicides, and maize, soybeans, small grain cereals, rice, industrial weed control, plantations and orchards for herbicides. Other crops that may be of interest include sugar beet, oil-seed rape, potatoes and citrus dependent upon your company s presence in these crops. 

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