fumigation

He said improved coordination between local and national governments and farmers was needed, to ensure adequate fumigation of rice fields.

Additionally, fumigation is an expensive process that does not provide lasting protection against termites.

A manager for one of them, Bay View Farms LLC, said the fumigation process is “really heavily regulated and inspected by not just the county, but also the state.”

The chemical’s primary use is the fumigation of homes and other structures, where a building is covered with an airtight tent and gas is pumped in to kill termites and other pests.

In 2019, in the journal Nature Chemical Biology, Dudareva and her associates published their discovery of a new physiological process, "Natural fumigation as a mechanism for volatile transport between flower organs."