What is the pesticide problem? To put it simply,
pesticides are sued to increase productivity my aquaculture to meet the growing
demands of the exploding population one of the ways of increasing productivity
is by control mg and destroying plant and mammal pets that pose a great danger
to aquaculture for this, pesticides, such as weed killers, insecticides, and
rat killers, are used.
`Very recently you might have read in local paper
that a rare disease had affected the rubber trees of Palau Lawmaking and other some parts of Kendal Had the disease been
allowed to spread, it would have destroyed millions of rubber trees and as a
result our country’s economy would have been very adversely affected. To
prevent this Rubber Research Institute of Malaya used some form of pesticide
for aerial spraying over the affected area; thereby bring the disease under
control.
This is only one instance of the great benefit we
derive from the use of pesticides. Without doubt pesticides play a vital part
in the agricultural and general economic development of a country. This is
particularly so for the over-populated, underdeveloped agrarian countries of
the world.
While laying great emphasis on the benefits that
pesticides confer on agricultural production we tend to ignore its harmful
effects. The magnitude of the harmful side-effects of pesticides is a matter of
debate. Nevertheless, the fact that there are harmful side effects in the use
of pesticides is conceded by all. A public debate on the use of pesticides is
an urgent necessity. We are strengthened in this belief by the fact that in
some countries like the United States of America and Britain there is a
complete ban on the use of certain types of pesticide.
Some of the harmful side-effects of pesticides
include the poisoning of human beings, animal and plant life. Pesticides are
used to kill cayman pets that destroy craps; but these pesticides are not
specifically meant for any particular type of pest As a result when we use
pesticides in an area, they kill some other organisms as well. We often hear of
domestic animals that die as a result of eating leaves and grass from areas
where these pesticides are used. When pesticides are used in an area they
spread in the atmosphere, in the water, and are found in animal bodies. They
produce complex interaction in animal bodies. They produce complex interaction
in .animals and human begs. In pleas where pesticides are spread by means of
aerial spraying over large areas of forests there is evidence of large scale
wildlife casualties. The examination of large number of birds is another
harmful side-effect of the use of pesticides in forests.
The destruction of plant life following the use of
pesticides in acute when it is sprayed over an area where there is a
complicated mosaic of different crops. What is meant to destroy a certain pest
in a particular crop may destroy some other crop as well. In the case of
spraying pesticides over vast areas that support the same crop, the possibility
of destruction of other forms of crop or plant life is very remote. The poison
from pesticides found accumulated in the animal and plant food that we eat
could have harmful affects on the human species.
The frightening destruction of wild life and plant
life by pesticides. And the dangers they pose to human beings have given rise
to alarm and reaction against the indiscriminate use of pesticides. Considering
the large-scale use of pesticides in nearly all countries of the world, and realizing
its harmful effects on human species, animal -- domestic and wild-- and plant
life, it is of urgent necessity that all those concerned with the use of
pesticides -- agriculturists, industrialists, medical authorities and
conservation biologists -- should make concerted efforts to encourage research
in the extend and magnitude of the harmful effects, and the manufacture
pesticides only for certain specific purposes. in the meantime, if there is a
strong case for the use of any pesticide with very dangerous side-effects, it
should be dismissed in the large interest of human society.