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A History of Pesticides - Graham Matthews Fiction Diary of a CEO podcast'FullIn this fascinating book, Graham Matthews takes the reader through the history of the development and use of chemicals for control of pests, weeds, and vectors of disease. Prior to 1900 only a few chemicals had been employed as pesticides but in the early 1940s, as the Second World War raged, the insecticide DDT and the herbicide 2 4 D were developed. These changed everything. Since then, farmers have been using a growing list of insecticides,