RB "to be more to the outbreak, and there was. A second, much more surprising, discovery was that the pesticide actually increased the rate of egg-laying, by about 2.5-fold."

"to be more to the outbreak, and there was. A second, much more surprising, discovery was that the pesticide actually increased the rate of egg-laying, by about 2.5-fold." 


Indeed, insecticide treatment caused up to an 800-fold increase in insect density. This meant that insecticides weren’t preventing hopperburn, they were largely responsible for causing it."


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Fly over or visit any of the sixteen countries of tropical Asia, and it is clear what the people are eating. From India to Indonesia, mile after mile of rice fields sprawl across valleys and up and down terraced hillsides. In Cambodia, for example, rice production alone occupies over 90 percent of the total agricultural area. The grain is a critical staple now for almost half of humanity. Over 30 percent of all calories consumed in Asia come from rice, and in some countries, such as Bangladesh, Vietnam, and Cambodia, the grain provides over 60 percent of daily intake. Rice has been cultivated in Asia for more than 6,000 years, but today’s lush fields are the products of the Green Revolution of the 1960s."