date:Aug 06, 2015
s fruit and vegetable production. Golf courses also relied on methyl bromide to keep their grass beautifully manicured, but they lost their access to the chemical by the end of 2013.
The chemical's ousting puts a $2.4 billion industry in the United States at risk. In 2012, the United States produced more than 36 billion pounds of the berry mostly from California according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
Some scientists at the University of California-Davis are working on a genetic so