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Until the beginning of the twentieth century, farmers relied exclusively on cultural practices such as crop rotation, healthy crop variety, manipulations in sowing dates, etc. to manage the insect pests.
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De, A., Bose, R., Kumar, A., Mozumdar, S. (2014). Trends and Limitations in Chemical-Based Pest Management. In: Targeted Delivery of Pesticides Using Biodegradable Polymeric Nanoparticles. SpringerBriefs in Molecular Science. Springer, New Delhi. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-81-322-1689-6_6
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