Herbicides & Pesticides

According to U.S Environmental Protection Agency, pesticide is defined as “any substance or mixture of substances intended for preventing, destroying, repelling, or lessening the damage of any pest”. A pesticide may be a chemical substance, biological agent disinfectant or device, used to kill pests, including insects, plant pathogens, weeds, birds, mammals, fish, roundworms and microbes that compete with humans for food. Pesticide is also any substance or mixture of substances intended for use as a plant regulator, defoliant, or desiccant. Often, it is misunderstood to refer only to insecticides. The term pesticide also includes herbicides, fungicides, and several substances used to control pests. There are several effects of pesticides on the environment, farmers and consumers. Pesticides virtually pollute lake, river and streams. There have been many studies and surveys of farmers with the view of determining the health effects of pesticide exposure. Pesticides are associated with health problems, such as abdominal pain, dizziness, headaches, vomiting, as well as skin and eye problems. Pesticides affect infants and children widely in allover the world. Pesticides affect children, when they are switched to an organic diet. There are many advantages and disadvantages of pesticides that cannot be explained here, but you can read them at many online sources and magazines. By knowing the advantages and disadvantages, you would be able to treat yourself properly and use the food items carefully.

Herbicide is a term that refers to kill the unwanted plants. Selective herbicides kill the specific plants, while leaving the desired crop fairly unscathed. Some of these act by interfering with the growth of the weed and are often based on plant hormones. Herbicides are used to clear waste ground and kill all plants with which they come into contact. Some of the plants produce natural herbicides, such as walnuts. Herbicides are widely used in agriculture and in landscape territory management. Herbicides are applied in total vegetation control programs for maintenance of highways and railroads. Gramaxone herbicide is one of the most popular substances in the world that is used for killing the useless plants. Gramaxone herbicide is used as a defoliant, desiccant, fungicide, herbicide terrestrial and regulator. Gramaxone herbicide’s toxicity code is 1, which corresponds to a toxicity category of danger. Gramaxone herbicides are available in the market at attractive prices. Parallel herbicide contains metolachlor, which is the active element in the old dual herbicide. Parallel herbicides are being marketed for preemergence grass and small seeded broadleaf weed control in glyphostate-resistant corn. Makhteshim Agan of North America is parallel herbicide’s marketer and world’s largest manufacturer of generic active elements. Parallel herbicides are targeting glyphostate-resistant corn to take advantage of a growing market, which made up round about 18% of corn acres in 2004.