Pesticides

1.     Pesticides are poisons. They should be used safely.

2.     There is no good or bad pesticide. All pesticides are poisons should be handled carefully. Earlier Endosulfane was used as safest insecticides but this pesticide was banned for use in India by Hon’ble Supreme Court of India. None of the pesticides is safer pesticides.

3.     The pesticides are not being used but they are being misused by the farmers.

4.     Pesticides are used indiscriminately without assessing their need for the field.

5.     Pesticides are handled by the farmers without recommended methods or procedure without safety precautions.    

6.     The pesticides have become the status symbol of the farmers. They procure the pesticides in advance in bulk quantity before onset of the crop season.

7.     Safe and judicious use of pesticide is needed.

8.     Pesticides are putting adverse effects on bio-diversity of a particular crop eco system. Many beneficial organisms of eco-system are killed with the use of pesticides.

9.     The pesticides have been proved as boon for achieving self sufficiency and Green Revolution in food production but in other side the pesticides failed on many occasions and resulted the crop failure also. Pesticides have not failed but it is we who failed the pesticides by misusing them.

10.                        Pesticides do not care for our health and environment.

11.                        Indiscriminate use of pesticide shave resulted crop failure on many occasions.

12.                        Earlier the pests were considered as potential threat to the bio security but now the pesticides are being considered as a major threat to the bio security.

13.                        The schedule based application of pesticides is neither needed nor required for crop yield.

14.                        Pesticides are more harmful than pests.

15.                        Pesticide do not discriminate the good or bad organisms found in agro-eco-system. They kill all organisms.  

16.                        Liberal and indiscriminate use of pesticides have resulted several ill effects associated with health and environment. Other problems such as, pest resurgency, resistancy development in pests against several pesticides, problem of pesticide residue in food fodder, body, milk, pollution in air, soil and water etc. are the major problems associated with the pesticides.

17.                        Consumptions of Pesticides –

S. No.	Year	Pesticides consumption in (Metric Tone)
1.	1950-51	250
2.	1965-66	15000
3.	1990-91	75000
4.	1999-2000	46155
5.	2005-06	39773
6.	2006-07	43407
7.	2007-08	41637
8.	2008-09	43860
9.	2009-10	41821
10.	2010-11	55540
11.	2011-12	52979
12.	2012-13	45619
13.	2013-14	60282
14.	2014-15	57353

18.                        Pesticides are being used as first priority Plant Protection inputs which need to be used as last priority inputs.

19.                        Now the chemical pesticides need to be replaced with bio-pesticides as extent as possible.

20.                        Quality control of chemicals & bio pesticides is need to be ensured.

21.                        Generally the pesticides dealers are acting as Plant Protection Advisor to the farmers who are giving and recommending the pesticides as per their own interest even cocktail of several pesticides is recommended by them which is not advisable, hence the pesticide dealers must be agriculture graduate and need to be trained properly.

Pesticides are ready to use solution for pest management with knock-down effect on the pests due to which they were promoted by the farmers.