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What is the difference between modern pesticides and traditional pesticides?

With the progress of society and the rapid development of science and technology, pesticides are also constantly developing and improving. At present, pesticide varieties are moving towards the direction of high efficiency, low toxicity, low residue, and environmental compatibility, the creation of pesticides also breaks through the traditional concept of pesticides directly kill pests, and emphasize the use of pesticides on the physiology of harmful organisms or behavior of the longer-term impact of the mitigation of pesticides, that is, pesticides are not directly killed by regulating the harmful organisms through the growth, development, reproduction, in order to achieve control of its harm. In terms of application technology, in recent years, the "environmentally compatible dosage form and use of technology", greatly improving the deposition rate of pesticides on the target, significantly reducing the amount of pesticides, reducing the impact on the environment. In addition, with the increasingly sophisticated management of risk assessment of pesticide safety, biologically rational pesticides will be an irreplaceable weapon in the fight against pests. As the 1970 Nobel Peace Prize winner N.E. Borlaug predicted: "We have to prioritize eating and staying healthy, for which pesticides are necessary. Without pesticides, the world will starve!"