Abstract
Objective: The objective of this study was to assess the health problems of the agriculture workers who used pesticides to cultivate crops.
Materials and Methods: It was a cross sectional comparative study.
Place of study: A total of 91 agricultural workers from the Integrated Pest Management (IPM) area and 89 such workers from the Non-Integrated Pest Management (Non-IPM) area of Gazipur district were selected as respondents of the study.
Result: The mean age of the respondents was 36.6 ± 9.7 years and average length of their pesticides use was 10.7 years. More than 50% of the respondents had education up to primary level. Almost all (96.7%) the respondents among IPM workers followed the instruction of pesticide use while 58.4% of the Non-IPM workers followed the instructions to some extent and the difference was statistically significant (p<0.001). Regarding personal protection during the pesticide use, significant (p<0.001) different was found between IPM respondents (78.0%) and Non-IPM respondents (42.6%). Of the total respondents, 88.3% mentioned that they suffered from some physical problems during pesticide use. The common physical problems were excessive lacrimation (88.7%), salivation (81.1%), difficult breathing (68.6%),
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Later the IPM activities have been continuing in different phases. However, it appears that even after implementation of IPM in Bangladesh many of the agriculture workers are not following the proper way of crops cultivation as well as the use of pesticide and for which they are at risk of developing a number of manifestations which are attributable to pesticide toxcity4,5,8. In studies, it is revealed that the pesticide may cause many health problems amongst the exposed persons12-15. This study was an attempt to find out the health problems suffered by both the IPM and Non-IPM agriculture workers who used pesticide for their crops
2.21 PESTICIDES Manahan (19..) discusses pesticides as water pollutants. DDT was introduced after World War II which accelerated pesticide use. Manahan (19..) states that by the mid-1990s agricultural use of pesticides was over 300 million kg per year and millions more kg of pesticides were used in non-agricultural applications. Manahan: Insecticides such as diazinon, carbaryl and chlorpyifos are most commonly found in water.
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The growers said that if they didn’t want to do the jobs other will. The workers struggle on the field because the growers spray pesticide on the product which make them get sick and harm their health, the pesticide are highly toxic to
In the first chapter of “Living Downstream” by Sandra Steingraber discussed about personal experiences living in Illinois and discovering how much the landscape has changed over the years. In addition to the changing landscape, cancer, especially breast cancer, has increased in the prairies of Illinois and pesticides usage may cause. Much of the discussion first begin with the change of landscape as the prairies of Illinois has become a place for farming and pesticides. As farming became an important aspect of Illinois, pesticides were created to remove any bugs or insects from the product that is being farmed. A few pesticides formulas that came to be are atrazine, dichloro diphenyl trichloroethane (DDT), and polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs).
The labelling of genetically modified foods is seen as wholesome common sense, and it should be required to have the information on the back of every product. People have been manipulating the genetic makeup of plants for numerous generations using the process of traditional cross breeding. Genetically modified crops have been traded, grown and consumed around the world, including Australia since 1996. The progress and advancement in this field has impacted the way we view the deeper issues of this technology. While genetic engineering crop property has been gradually increasing, so have concerns, in that producing and eating genetically modified foods may pose unexpected environmental and health hazards.
By doing this some of the consumers can be easy to catch a new disease or get even sickly with the pesticide and
Organic Food In the society where people are getting more concerned about one 's health organic food has become a widely spread and followed by many people tendency. Organic food is believed to have better impact on person 's well-being and not to cause harm to people and the surrounding world due to its ecological nature. The debate that has been recently developed around this topic cannot be solved easily since both supporters and their counterparts provide reasonable arguments supporting their positions. However, to get into the problem and find the answer to a question that concerns many people it is necessary to identify organic food at first.
What is the amount of pesticide that we have in our body? , and how do pesticides affect our health and the environment? According to recent studies, we can find seven different types of pesticides in a simple strawberry. For this
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Organic Food. It is the thing we’ve been drinking eating for decades but when does it stop. It might. If we don’t take our asses and eat some organic food we could be looking at a foodless future. And i understand that it’s not cheap.
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