21. Aerial application accounts for just under 20 % of all applied crop protection products on commercial farms. 22. Vencill described the findings at a meeting of the British Crop Protection Council in Brighton this week. 23. In regard to massive outbreaks, the use of insecticide is the only practical method of crop protection . 24. RPU may therefore provide an appropriate framework for collaboration between many of the stake-holders in crop protection . 25. Earnings from a crop protection venture with German chemical company Hoechst also boosted the profit, the company said. 26. The new company, to be known as Aventis SA, will focus on pharmaceuticals, crop protection and animal health. 27. All four business divisions _ health care, crop protection , polymers and chemicals _ showed declines in operating profit. 28. "There's now a blurring between the crop protection and seed industries and biotech is largely driving that ." 29. It will only sell the rights for crop protection , however, keeping other applications, Bayer spokesman Guenter Forneck said. 30. Terra, which also makes methanol products and other crop protection products, had 1995 revenue of $ 2.3 billion.
