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Costa Rica farmers apply nearly twice the official pesticide rate to...
Q COSTA RICA — A scientific study estimates that Costa Rica’s cultivated land uses an average of 21.9 kilograms of pesticide active ingredients per hectare each year—nearly twice the official national figure.
The difference, researchers say, is largely explained by how the country calculates the area included in its agricultural...














