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Contact SupplierCotton covers 2.5% of the world's cultivated land yet uses 16% of the world's insecticides, more than any other single major crop. Other environmental consequences of the elevated use of chemicals in the non organic cotton growing methods consist of High levels of agrochemicals are used in the production of non-organic, conventional cotton.
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Cotton production uses more chemicals per unit area than any other crop and accounts in total for 10-16% of the world's pesticides (including herbicides, insecticides, and defoliants).Chemicals used in the processing of cotton pollute the air and surface waters. Decreased biodiversity and shifting equilibrium of ecosystems due to the use of pesticides