date:May 23, 2013
sive use of banned pesticides - a sign that farmers, under pressure to produce more, may be as culpable as heavy industry.
Sea and river pollution, heavy metal pollution of the soil and atmospheric pollution are very serious causes of environmental damage, but we should say that the biggest contributor is agriculture, said Wen Tiejun, dean at the School of Agricultural Economics at China's Renmin University.
Experts say 60 percent of the pesticides used on China's severely overworked farms are