Subject: Re: What is neem?
From: [email-masked]
Date: Wed, 08 Jun 94 18:25:56 EDT
Newsgroups: alt.sustainable.agriculture

In article <[email-masked]>
[email-masked] (Louis Hom) writes:
 
>
>Can anyone tell me what neem is?  I think it's some sort of botanical
>spray for control of insect pests, but I'm not sure.
>--
 
Neem is a tree which produces a natural chemical that is an effective
insecticide when extracted and sprayed on crops.  The tree is tropical,
I believe--there is an article in the most recent issue of the USDA-ARS
magazine "Agricultural Research"