Pyrethrum-based insecticide production
2012
Despite their beauty, pyrethrum's ornamental flower heads are not what attracted Papua New Guinean highland farmers to adopt the plant as a cash crop long ago. Instead, the flower heads of the white pyrethrum daisy, Tanacetum cinerariifolium, are a source of a fast-acting, low-toxicity insecticide and repellent.
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