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      <dc:title>UNRRA technicians are using the source of an ancient Chinese medicine, the derris root, for the manufacture of pesticides</dc:title>
  
      <dc:creator>United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration</dc:creator>
  
  
      <dc:description>CNRRA / 791

Shanghai, China -- November 1947

The rotenone is manufactured with UNRRA technical assistance at the National Pesticide Manufacturing Company plant on Yulin Road in Shanghai, and is distributed to farmers in two-ounce bottles, the contents of which, mixed in one bucket of water, is sufficient to spray one mow of land, as seen in this picture

Chinese National Relief and Rehabilitation Administration
China
Farming -- China
Pest control -- China


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            <dc:identifier>S-0801-0005-0001-00080</dc:identifier>
      
  
      <dc:rights>Security level: Unclassified</dc:rights>
  
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