What are the good effects of pesticides and fertilizers and role fertilizers and pesticides and insecticides on agriculture?
I believe that fertilizers and pesticides have a strong bonding with each other. They stimulate crop's growth with greater yield, help in irrigation, crop protection, control pests, kill weeds, prevent diseases, and protect food and much more. Pesticides can contaminate soil, water, turf, and other vegetation. In addition to killing insects or weeds, pesticides can be toxic to a host of other organisms including birds, fish, beneficial insects, and non-target plants. Fertilizers boost crop yields, but their excessive usage has hardened the soil, reduced fertility, strengthened insecticides, polluted air and water, and emitted greenhouse gases, creating health and environmental risks. Most common are Urea, Single Super Phosphate, and Murate of Potash. In general pesticide is a chemical or biological agent that deters, incapacitates, kills or otherwise discourages pests. Both chemical pesticides and bio pesticides are important for crop protection. Without crop protection, including pesticides, more than half of the world's crops would be lost to insects, diseases and weeds. Pesticides are important. They help farmers grow more food on less land by protecting crops from pests, diseases and weeds as well as raising productivity per hectare. The overuse of fertilizers in some regions and countries has led to worrying environmental problems such as the saturation of nutrients in soils and the loss of fertilizer via leaching to groundwater and via runoff to surface water leading to pollution of drinking water and eutrophication of freshwater rivers and lakes. Regular use of chemical fertilizers, inorganic fertilizers, pesticides will decrease the fertility of the soil at a rapid rate and alter the structure of the soil. This will lead to decrease in soil quality and poor quality of crops. It is known to be one of the most important inputs of fertilizers in agricultural production. When it is applied inadequate, rates of productivity and quality are caused significant losses. When it is too much applied, it causes air pollution by nitrogen oxides (NO, N2O, NO2) emissions. Nutrient pollution is the process where too many nutrients, mainly nitrogen and phosphorus, are added to bodies of water and can act like fertilizer, causing excessive growth of algae.
Fertilizers boost crop yields, but their excessive usage has hardened the soil, reduced fertility, strengthened insecticides, polluted air and water, and emitted greenhouse gases, creating health and environmental risks. Pesticides are used to control various pests and disease carriers, such as mosquitoes, ticks, rats and mice. Pesticides are used in agriculture to control weeds, insect infestation and diseases. There are many different types of pesticides; each is meant to be effective against specific pests. Most common are Urea, Single Super Phosphate, and Murate of Potash. In general pesticide is a chemical or biological agent that deters, incapacitates, kills or otherwise discourages pests. Both chemical pesticides and bio pesticides are important for crop protection. Pesticides have been an integral part of the process by reducing losses from the weeds, diseases and insect pests that can markedly reduce the amount of harvestable produce. Fertilizer is a chemical substance that makes land and soil fertile for better growth of crops while pesticides are the chemical substance that protects the crop and land from pests that can infect the crops. Pesticides are used to increase agricultural productivity, but they are used indiscriminately and pollute the biota. Non-target species are harmed as a result of pesticide transfer in the environment. Some insecticides have the potential to harm human health and the environment.
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