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INTEGRATED PEST MANAGEMENT-THE SMART SOLUTION

Among the major challenges the present is world going through, producing enough food for its huge population is a vital one. The explosion of population forces the modern agriculture to produce the minimum amount of food required to feed the living human population without leaving too many scopes for the agronomists to think much about the environment and human health. You must protect your crops from the damages caused by pests, any animals or plants that are harmful to humans and human interests such as- harmful insects, mites, nematodes etc., to ensure a good crop production. Farmers of many countries across the world have been using different types of chemical pesticides indiscriminately to protect their crops from various pests. Though chemical pesticides bring them temporary relief, but at the very moment, they introduce a number of long-term and persistent disasters.

CHEMICAL PESTICIDES ARE POISONS

Indiscriminate use of chemical pesticides is highly hazardous to the environment and human health. When pesticides are applied to a field they don’t remain confined to their targeted field, rather travel to a vast area outside the targeted field by air, water, and soil. This widespread movement of applied pesticides brings surface and ground water contamination. Soil and air contaminations also take place from unwise pesticide use. These pollutions bring many complicated human diseases like – skin irritation, nausea, cardiovascular illness etc.

Besides humans, the toxic residues of chemical pesticides produce many harmful impacts on various animals (e. g., birds, fishes, amphibians etc.) and plants.

The above-mentioned problems are not all pesticides are responsible for, there is another terrible and irreparable problem that pesticides introduce that is ‘Making the Pests Resistant’. The indiscriminate application of pesticides has been making the pests resistant to pesticides and thus making them stronger and more damaging gradually by the following ways-

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