Transcript: Rice Researchers Reverse Sixties Pesticide Policy

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DANIEL ZWERDLING, Host: This story is about one of the most surprising and important environmental developments in the past 30 years. It' s about pesticides in the Third World. Since the 1960s, U.S. officials and agribusiness companies and foundations have been teaching farmers across Asia to grow rice, their number one crop, the American way, using fertilizers and hybrid seeds and pesticides. Environmental activists have protested, warning that all these chemicals could cause serious problems in the long run, and they've often been dismissed as kooks. If you could name one group of people that's done more than anyone else to promote the American style ...

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