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How to make your own insecticides at home

If you have been a vegetable farmer, you must have had an encounter with pests from time to time. When it comes to keeping your crops healthy, there are approaches that can guarantee better harvests.

While removing insects by hand is one time-tested method, it can also be incredibly challenging to do so or can be too little too late. Another, far less time-intensive method of knocking back insect populations is by applying natural or homemade insecticides, which can reduce their numbers or eliminate them altogether.

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