Pesticides

CHAPTER 1

INTRODUCTION

Pesticides are substances known for preventing, or destroying any pest . The most general use of pesticides is as plant insurance products, which in general protect plants from destroying influences such as diseases or insects. This benefit of pesticides is so general that the term pesticide is often treated as synonymous with plant protection product, although it is in fact a wide term, as pesticides are also used for non-agricultural aim.

A pesticide is usually a chemical or biological agent that through its deters, incapacitates, kills or otherwise cowardliness pests. Target pests can include insects, plant pathogens, weeds, birds, mammals, and microbes that destroy property, cause nuisance, spread disease. Although

For example, they are used to kill mosquitoes that can address potentially baleful diseases like W.N virus, yellow fever, and malaria. They can also kill bees, wasps that can basis allergic reactions. Insecticides can protect animals from affliction that can be caused bloodsucker such as fleas. Pesticides can avoid sickness in humans that could be caused by bad food or diseased produce. Herbicides can be used to luminous roadside weeds, trees and brush. They can also kill forward weeds that may cause environmental accident. Herbicides are generally applied in ponds and lakes to restraint algae and plants such as water grasses that can baffle with activities like swimming and fishing and cause the water to look or smell. Abandoned pests such as termites and mould can affliction structures such as houses. Pesticides are used in grocery stores and food storage facilities to administer rodents and insects that assail food such as grain. Each use of a pesticide carries some affiliate risk. Proper pesticide use decreases these affilate risks to a level adequate by pesticide managerial agencies such as the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Pest Management Regulatory Agency (PMRA) of