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Gewasbestrijding

English translation: crop protection


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Dutch term or phrase:Gewasbestrijding
English translation:crop protection
Entered by: Alexander Taguiltsev
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19:43 Nov 29, 2008
Dutch to English translations [Non-PRO]
Marketing - Agriculture
Dutch term or phrase: Gewasbestrijding
Please, help to understand
'Gewasbestrijding' - does it mean killing the crop (like onkruidbestrijding) or helping it to be not killing.

Text is about greenhouse vegetables:

Ze krijgen de meeste zonuren, zijn veilig vanwege biologische gewasbestrijding en vanwege de volledig gecontroleerde omgeving van de Nederlandse kassen.
Alexander Taguiltsev
Russian Federation
Local time: 01:14
crop protection
Explanation:
I believe that they mean biologische gewasbescherming. Surely in the context they cannot mean anything else but biological pest control.
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Helen Lusted
Netherlands
Local time: 23:14
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crop protection


Explanation:
I believe that they mean biologische gewasbescherming. Surely in the context they cannot mean anything else but biological pest control.

Helen Lusted
Netherlands
Local time: 23:14
Grading comment
Thank you!

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Lianne Van De Ven: Very strange indeed to find 200+ hits on "gewasbestrijding" while it should be gewasbescherming and onkruidbestrijding. Weird case here: http://library.wur.nl/WebQuery/artik/lang/1714776
58 mins

agree  Tina Vonhof
2 hrs

agree  Kate Hudson
2 hrs

agree  L.J.Wessel van Leeuwen: Unreal !
8 hrs
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