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    Pesticides are chemical or biological substances used to kill pests that damage crops and livestock. Common pesticides are insecticides, herbicides, rodenticides, and fungicides. While pesticides protect crops from pests, they can also harm humans and the environment by entering the air, water, and food supply. Their toxic chemicals are designed to be released into the environment but often reach unintended destinations, and pesticide exposure has been linked to both short- and long-term health issues in humans.

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    Pesticides are chemical or biological substances used to kill pests that damage crops and livestock. Common pesticides are insecticides, herbicides, rodenticides, and fungicides. While pesticides protect crops from pests, they can also harm humans and the environment by entering the air, water, and food supply. Their toxic chemicals are designed to be released into the environment but often reach unintended destinations, and pesticide exposure has been linked to both short- and long-term health issues in humans.

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    Pesticides are chemical or biological substances used to kill pests that damage crops and livestock. Common pesticides are insecticides, herbicides, rodenticides, and fungicides. While pesticides protect crops from pests, they can also harm humans and the environment by entering the air, water, and food supply. Their toxic chemicals are designed to be released into the environment but often reach unintended destinations, and pesticide exposure has been linked to both short- and long-term health issues in humans.

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    Introduction of Pesticides


    • Pesticides are chemical substances that are meant to kill pests. In
    general, a pesticides is a chemical or a biological agent such as a
    virus, bacterium, antimicrobial, or disinfectant that deters,
    incapacitates, kills, pests.
    • It is commonly used to eliminate or control a variety of agricultural
    pests that can damage crops and livestock and reduce farm
    productivity.
    • The most commonly applied pesticides are insecticides to kill insects,
    herbicides to kill weeds, rodenticides to kill rodents, and fungicides to
    control fungi, mould, and mildew.
    Types of Pesticides

    1. Insecticides – Insects
    2. Herbicides – Plants
    3. Rodenticides – Rodents (Rats & Mice)
    4. Bactericides – Bacteria
    5. Fungicides – Fungi
    6. Larvicides - larvae
    Benefits of Pesticides

    • The Major advantages 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.
    1. Pesticides have been linked with human health hazards,
    from short-team impacts such as headaches and nausea to
    chronic impacts like cancer, reproductive harm.
    2. Instead, they enter the air, water, and our food.
    3. Each particles is meant to kill a certain pests, a very large
    percentage of pesticides reach a destination other than
    their target.

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