Benefits and Effects of pesticides

Benefits of Pesticides

The major advantage of pesticides is that they can save farmers. By protecting crops from insects and other pests. However, below are some other primary benefits of it.

• Controlling pests and plant disease vectors.
• Controlling human/livestock disease vectors and nuisance organisms.
• Controlling organisms that harm other human activities and structures.

Effects of Pesticides

• The toxic chemicals in these are designed to deliberately released into the environment. Though each pesticide is meant to kill a certain pest, a very large percentage of pesticides reach a destination other than their target. Instead, they enter the air, water, sediments, and even end up in our food.
• Pesticides have been linked with human health hazards, from short-term impacts such as headaches and nausea to chronic impacts like cancer, reproductive harm.
• The use of these also decreases the general biodiversity in the soil. If there are no chemicals in the soil there is higher soil quality, and this allows for higher water retention, which is necessary for plants to grow.

Regards

Jun Ray

Assistant Mnaging Editor

Environmental Toxicology and Studies Journal