Essays on Pesticides

A range of insecticides are used extensively to control D. opuntiae and others scale pests around the world which can also indirectly affect beneficial organisms (Vermeulen et al. , 1990; Campiche et al. , 2006; Dawar et al. , 2016). Deltamethrin, methidathion and carbaryl have…

Rice (Oryza sativa) is a staple food in the Philippines and comprises 35% of an average Filipino’s daily calorie intake. Being an agricultural country, rice is a common crop in the Philippines especially in the northern parts yet the country continues to depend on importing…

Bees have been affected by pesticides for generations. When one pesticide is banned, another is either in development or has been released just in time to fill the gap in the market. Unfortunately, more often than not, pesticides are banned as they have been found…

Introduction The Callosobruchus maculatus (bean beetle) is a major economic burden to the societies in Africa and Asia due to the fact that these beetles are responsible for destroying farmers’ legume grains. The bean beetles have distinct appearances in relation to their genders. For example,…

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…