Overview: The book covers the various aspects of the use of pesticides,their behavior, degradation, and impacts in wetland ricefields, andpresents the results of surveys conducted in the Philippines andThailand. It includes both bibliographic reviews and selected aspectsof the experimental results of a research project on pesticide impactsin wetland ricefields. The first phase of the `Pesticide Impact‘project was developed in the Philippines from 1989 to 1991. It was amultidisciplinary/collaborative approach involving scientists fromIRRI, NRI (England), ORSTOM (France), UPLB (Philippines) who
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