Characterization of pesticide consumption in the county of Santarém, Pará, Brazil

Many potentially harmful pesticides for both human health and the environment are used in Brazilian Amazon. However, no scientific datum on pesticide usage is presently available for this region. Consequently, it is difficult to assess which substances arc used and in which quantities. As an importa...

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Main Authors: Nicolas SOUMIS, Marc ROULET, Marc LUCOTTE
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia 2000-12-01
Series:Acta Amazonica
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0044-59672000000400615&tlng=en