Water Pollution Due to Agricultural Pesticides

The term pesticide is a composite term that includes all chemicals that are used to kill or control pests. Pesticides are used to protect crops against insects, weeds, fungi, and other pests. They also play a significant role in food production. They protect or increase yields, and the number of times per year a crop can be grown on the same land. In agriculture, this includes herbicides weeds , insecticides insects , fungicides fungi , nematocides nematodes , and rodenticides vertebrate poisons .Pesticides are potentially toxic to humans and can have both acute and chronic health effects, depending on the quantity and the ways in which a person is exposed. Some of the older, cheaper pesticides can remain in the soil and water for years. They have been banned in developed countries for agricultural use but are still used in many developing countries. There are more than 1,000 pesticides used around the world to ensure food is not damaged or destroyed by pests. Each pesticide has different properties and toxicological effects and the toxicological effects of multiple pesticides can be greater than the sum of their parts . Dr. Ashutosh Tripathi | Prabhat Pandey "Water Pollution Due to Agricultural Pesticides" Published in International Journal of Trend in Scientific Research and Development (ijtsrd), ISSN: 2456-6470, Volume-6 | Issue-4 , June 2022, URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com/papers/ijtsrd50192.pdf Paper URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com/other-scientific-research-area/other/50192/water-pollution-due-to-agricultural-pesticides/dr-ashutosh-tripathi