Essays on Pesticides

Pests are usually very small insects that are present in their environment or in their surroundings. These insects can include the group of flies, mosquitoes, termites, ants and cockroaches. Most of them are dangerous to human health, but since they live on food, we eat…

Rice (Oryza sativa) is the most important and prominent agricultural product of the world. It is also the staple food of at least half of the world’s population, and mainly of that consists of Asians. It is recognized that in Rice, there are certain constraints…

What’s the Panic About Pesticides? “The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization estimates that about 805 million people of the 7.3 billion people in the world, or one in nine, were suffering from chronic undernourishment in 2012-2014.” (“The State of Food”) Starvation and diseases are…

The Abyss of Pesticides and Genetically Modified Organisms Food: the centre of our lives, a means of survival, and a way of getting together and having a swell time. However, over 80% of the world’s food is genetically modified, altered at the genetic level which…

The Use of Pesticides Pesticides are chemicals used to protect plants and crops from weeds, insects and dangerous molds. Although the use of these chemicals may seem favorable, they’ve been proven to be extremely harmful to both wildlife, and humans. The amount of pesticides being…

To be able to assess the risk of contaminants like nitrate and pesticides being transported through a variably-saturated macroporous clay till to artificially drain pipes, the conceptual understanding of the preferential water flow is crucial and hence the degree of water percolating rapidly through vertical…

People like to keep their home clean from all types of intruders such as insects, animals and pests. What these three species have in common is that they require food, water and harborage. When the supply of any of these three is cut down, you…

Carcinogenic effects Different types of epidemiological studies have been carried out to understand the relationship between exposure to pesticides and cancer. These pesticides can enable the cancer process by either nongenotoxic mechanisms such as promotion, peroxisme proliferation, and hormone imbalance, or by affecting carcinogenic process…

The whole world has the problem of increasing population which cause more food to be produced according to the population. Food security mostly depends on the soil and is very important in the whole world for people to secure adequate food on a day-to-day basis…

Organophosphorus hydrolase (OPH) is a bacterial catalyst that has been appeared to degrade an extensive variety of neurotoxic organophosphate pesticide. The successful degradation of chlorpyrifos pesticide was finished by the bacterial compound as it were. The organophosphate degrading enzyme from Pseudomonas stutzeri MCAS01 can degrade…