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Pesticides ban could lead to Irish-style potato famine warns grower
by
Jez Abbott
HortWeek.com
27 November 2008
The 19th-century Irish potato famine will replay itself if the blanket ban of pesticides planned by Europe and the green lobby goes ahead, warns a leading grower.
Clive Edmed said: "If we lose the amount of pesticides we think we are going to lose it will decimate our industry, without a doubt. "If you can't control diseases you are on a hiding to nothing," added the vice-chairman of the British Independent Fruit Growers Association. "If the same weather conditions grip...
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