Eliminating hand weeding can improve living conditions in rural Africa. Because farmers are no longer too tied to the land, they can engage in other economic activities that boost incomes, says Leonard Gianessi, director of CropLife Foundation's Crop Protection Research Institute. Herbicides, he argues, can help make that happen.
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