Essays on Pesticides

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…

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 in a…

Nigeria, a country blessed with natural resources and diverse provisions from above, distinguished with numerous and heterogeneous skills, aptitude and talents crucial for the development of the country and blessed with the intellect that can’t be compared with some notable countries in the world but…

Although plants are a major component of wetland ecosystems, only one study used them in their impact assessment bioassay (Bendell-Young et al, 2000). The impact of toxins on plants can be measured as their growth and photosynthetic rates will be impacted when presented with stress…

We hear and read a lot these days about the dangers of “chemicals”—about pesticide residues on our food, toxic wastes on our land, unsafe medicines, and so forth. What’s a person to believe? Life is not risk-free; we all take many risks each day. We…

To uphold our current government which should be run by the people, for the people, we must show our participation. For if we as citizens do not participate in the fate of our country, it will be left up to the minority who were chosen…

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…

Abstract The sub lethal effects of Biskaya, Neem Azal and Tondexir were investigated on life parameters of Habrobracon hebetor, Say (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) in two method: contact and digesive in laboratory condition. The first, the sub-lethal concentration of these treatments as contact method were determined 0.0063,…