{"id":25571,"date":"2021-04-29T08:02:15","date_gmt":"2021-04-29T06:02:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/baumwollboerse.de\/uncategorized\/fact-check-cottons-share-of-worldwide-pesticide-use\/"},"modified":"2022-09-29T18:08:01","modified_gmt":"2022-09-29T16:08:01","slug":"fact-check-cottons-share-of-worldwide-pesticide-use","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baumwollboerse.de\/en\/fact-check-cottons-share-of-worldwide-pesticide-use\/","title":{"rendered":"Fact check: Cotton\u2019s Share of Worldwide Pesticide Use"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"bmti6\" data-offset-key=\"dobka-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"dobka-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"dobka-0-0\">Cotton is not the largest user of agricultural pesticides \u2013 it\u2019s actually one of the lowest, accounting for less than 5 percent of the world\u2019s total pesticide sales, despite some erroneous claims. Without the use of pesticides, farmers would not be able to provide a nutritional, plentiful, and affordable food supply for a rapidly growing global population. In fact, it\u2019s estimated that over 80 percent of the global cotton crop could be lost to insects, fungi, and weeds without them. <\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"4kj8b-0-0\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-11142\" src=\"https:\/\/baumwollboerse.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Pestizideinsatz_e-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"408\"><span data-offset-key=\"4kj8b-0-0\"><br data-text=\"true\"><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"bmti6\" data-offset-key=\"2oc19-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"7f95i-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"2oc19-0-0\">Source: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/cottontoday.cottoninc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Cotton-Incorporated-Fact-Sheet-Cotton-Pesticides_Final-Approved_06.22.20.pdf\"><span class=\"diy96o5h\" data-offset-key=\"2oc19-1-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"2oc19-1-0\">Cotton Incorporated<\/span><\/span><span data-offset-key=\"2oc19-2-0\">, Pesticides &amp; Cotton Production<\/span><\/a><span data-offset-key=\"7f95i-0-0\"> (pdf):<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cotton is not the largest user of agricultural pesticides \u2013 it\u2019s actually one of the lowest, accounting for less than 5 percent of the world\u2019s total pesticide sales, despite some erroneous claims. Without the use of pesticides, farmers would not be able to provide a nutritional, plentiful, and affordable food supply for a rapidly growing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[74],"tags":[951,159,975,1018],"class_list":["post-25571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-allgemein","tag-agriculture","tag-cotton","tag-pesticides","tag-share"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/baumwollboerse.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25571","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/baumwollboerse.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/baumwollboerse.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baumwollboerse.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baumwollboerse.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25571"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/baumwollboerse.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25571\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25572,"href":"https:\/\/baumwollboerse.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25571\/revisions\/25572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baumwollboerse.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baumwollboerse.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baumwollboerse.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}