But sources on the ground said peasants are now cultivating very small fields to avoid the attention of the spraying aircraft, and many of these are too small to appear on the satellite imagery the UN based its report on.
Given the vagaries of aerial spraying, this would bar the use of tebuthiuron in many coca fields.
Jones is out of jail after being held Sunday night, accused of pepper-spraying a group of people he said were fighting.
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Vice President Santos talks of this spraying being ineffective and insists the plants should be dug up by hand, and this unit was the first to do this highly dangerous work.
Critics of Plan Colombia worry too about the aerial spraying of herbicides, the method used by the Colombian police to try and eradicate coca.
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The University of California, Davis is testing small helicopter-like vehicles for the targeted spraying of pesticides in hard-to-reach hillsides in vineyards.
Treating seeds in this way enables farmers to use lower doses of insecticide than spraying.
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Similarly, demonstrations in the Syrian city of Deraa erupted in mid-March to protest against the jailing of minors for spraying graffiti.
The seed treatment lowers the amount used 10 to 20 fold, decreasing the need for open spraying of the plant, a genuine sustainability benefit.
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He may be mistaken, and let's hope so, for Bolivia's sake (and Colombia's, which, having achieved little with its aerial spraying of coca, is looking to the same miracle remedy).
It replaced aerial spraying of much more dangerous chemicals.
After some dramatic successes in Rwanda, Zanzibar and elsewhere, a clear consensus is emerging: an ambitious strategy involving nets impregnated with long-lasting insecticide, indoor spraying of insecticides and pills using artemisinin-combination therapies can slash mortality.
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Every last speck of black paint has to be cleaned from the tubes of the paint-spraying robots with expensive solvents.
They have agreed to stop aerial spraying within 300 yards of lakes, bays and rivers, where more precise hand-spraying is now the rule.
The woman says in the suit that she objected on the way home the next morning when men began spraying some of women with water.
Weaving through a thicket of tag alders, spraying as she goes.
Spraying the walls of houses with DDT helped the U.S. conquer malaria 60 years ago.
On the other hand the Environmental Working Group list calls attention to the fact that some of those residues are pesticides like organophosphates which have been linked to issues with child development and are of concern for farm workers spraying them in the fields.
It quickly established its mastery of the new media ecosystem with a video hoax that showed designer Marc Ecko spraying graffiti on Air Force One, one of the first instances of viral marketing on YouTube, then only a year old.
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In the background one of the offshore supply vessels was actually spraying water all around the Discover Enterprise.
"The system is very chaotic and collisions are spraying up a huge cloud of fine dust, " Su said.
In Colombia, the government in February halted aerial spraying in the southern province of Putumayo, where almost half of the country's coca crop is grown.
Measures being used to combat cable theft, she told MPs, included increased use of surveillance, reinforcing railway sleepers and spraying tracks with traceable liquid to deter thieves.
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DDT-spraying stops, the number of malaria cases frequently explodes.
Police surrounded and searched the house for more than six hours, spraying "a powerful dose" of tear gas in hopes of flushing out the man.
Police surrounded and searched the house for more than six hours Tuesday, spraying "a powerful dose" of tear gas in hopes of flushing out the man.
Yet in those exceptions, it seems, the pulsar may have been so energetic as to destroy its companion completely either by consuming it whole, or by spraying any remains with brutal streams of radiation.
The hurdles that CCS and especially geo-engineering present, along with the finance question, are almost certainly more challenging than the technical ones presented by carrying one end of a hosepipe up on a balloon and spraying some water out.
After spraying, almost the entire local population of mosquitoes was wiped out.
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