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Originally Posted by waggoner41
Every insect has natural predators that are not being encouraged.... vast areas are devoted to single crops encouraging the development of diseases....even though it will mean less profit we have to change the way we grow our crops.
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I work full time in an entomology lab. While I agree with the sentiment about there being natural predators, sometimes they don't exist in the area they are causing problems or don't occur in numbers high enough to have any impact. You don't have to have vast areas of a single crop to experience economic levels of disease. I have 1/4 acre of bananas behind my house that is 5 miles from any other commercial planting and I still had Sigatoka this year. Finally, farms exist to make profits just like any other business, how would you feel if someone was going to dictate to you how much money you got to make next year. What you are really proposing is a whole lot more manpower to manage pests and diseases.