Environmental Impact Pesticides and Fertilizers Pesticides, Fertilizers, Over watering, hectors of land with crop mono culture, flattening of lands for commercial agricultural purposes. Use of herbicides has caused an irreversible damage to our farms and the environment. One cannot see bees in the farms today due to excessive spraying. That affects the pollination, to the extent that people are hand pollinating and administering more growth hormones to the plants. The worldwide consumption of pesticides has reached 2.6 million metric tons. Of this 85 percent is used in agriculture. In addition to the increase in quantity of pesticides used, farmers are using stronger concentrations of pesticides, they have increased the frequency of pesticide applications and increasingly mix several pesticides together to combat pesticide resistance by pests. Example: The bulk of pesticides used in India are insecticides which lead to insecticide-resistance by pests ...
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