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1 - Nearly half the pesticides used in India go into protecting cotton, the most important commercial crop in the country.

2 - Though artificial fertilizers ensure high crop-yields, their environmental consequences are very disturbing.

3 - Fertilizers have no harmful effects on the soil, the crop, or the consumer as long as they are used according to recommendations based on the results of local research.

4 - Though artificial fertilizers ensure high crop-yields their environmental consequences are very disturbing.

5 - Rice is the only major grain crop that is grown almost exclusively as human food.