herbicide

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However, organic farming tends to have more intensive fuel and machinery use to mechanically break up weeds without herbicides or extra human labour to control weeds manually.

From Salon

Through volunteers manually weeding the plants, covering dense patches with black plastic to kill it and selectively applying water-safe herbicides, the park has managed to greatly reduce the ice plant population.

From Los Angeles Times

The polling also found that 78% were in favour of some environmentally-beneficial applications of GE, such as the reduced use of pesticides and herbicides.

From BBC

And herbicides have rarely been used against Spartina in China.

From Science Magazine

Mexico has planned to phase out the use of genetically modified corn, as well as an herbicide called glyphosate, by 2024.

From New York Times