Definition: Pesticides

Category: FAO Agricultural censuses

Pesticides are substances intended to prevent, destroy or control in plants or animals diseases and pests, including vectors of human and animal diseases, unwanted species of plants, or to control the behaviour or physiology of pests or crops during production or storage http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/ramon/statmanuals/files/census_agri_en.pdf
Source:
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), "A system of integrated agricultural censuses and surveys. Volume 1: World Programme for the Census of Agriculture 2010", Rome, 2005
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