Coca Cola as a Pesticide!

[via Ars Technica]Farmers in India have been using Coke as a pesticide.

Gotu Laxmaiah, a farmer from Ramakrishnapuram in Andra Pradesh, said he was delighted with his new cola spray, which he applied this year to several hectares of cotton. “I observed that the pests began to die after the soft drink was sprayed on my cotton,” he told the Deccan Herald newspaper. [Bugs go dead with Coke : Page 2]

Interesting and more importantly I would say Ingenious!

By satchit, November 8, 2004 11:12 pm

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