The use of pesticides in agriculture is a two-edged sword! Which edge is sharper?

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ZAND ESKANDAR; Sasanfar Hamidreza; RAMEZANI MOHAMMAD KAZEM; Khalil Tahmasebi Behrouz

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Seminar: IRANIAN WEED SCIENCE CONGRESS
Year:2023 | Issue:10

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Title

The use of pesticides in agriculture is a two-edged sword! Which edge is sharper?

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ZAND ESKANDAR | Sasanfar Hamidreza | RAMEZANI MOHAMMAD KAZEM | Khalil Tahmasebi Behrouz

Keywords

Environment

Health

Pesticide resistance

Abstract

History, has always witnessed famine and its economic consequences due to the damage caused by biotic factors that infect crops. Even before the industrial revolution, growers have struggled against these damaging factors in various ways, such as using different cultivation methods or special crop rotations. After the industrial revolution, and especially after the 1940s, the discovery of chemical pesticides brought a significant improvement in the fight against harmful factors such as pests, diseases and weeds, and in this way, it significantly increased food production. These chemicals considerably expanded in the last decades of the 20th century, with an 80% increase from 1990 to 2017. This increasing growth has caused industrial agriculture to be heavily dependent on these chemicals, and today agriculture without the use of pesticides is very challenging. Despite the fact that pesticides have undeniable advantages by reducing damage, increasing production, enhancing the speed of control actions in combating pests, lowering costs and easing pest management,their disadvantages which are mainly adverse effects on the Environment and human Health, as well as resistance phenomenon, are also significant. These adverse factors have caused pesticides to be seen as a two-edged sword. Nowadays, in countries where the regulations for pesticide use are weak, one edge of this sword, which is the edge of the harmful effects, is sharper,and it seems that if these risks are ignored, the future of pesticide use, as well as the Environment and people’, s Health, will be exposed to serious danger and lead to the adverse effects of pesticides becoming more prominent than their positive effects. This concern has been increasing in recent years in some southern countries, (such as South America and Africa) where regulations on the use of pesticides are not strong enough. As a result, in the last 20 years, the use of pesticides in South America and Africa has increased by 119% and 68%, respectively. Therefore, along with acknowledging the benefits of using pesticides, their drawbacks should also be seriously considered, to minimize the adverse effects. In general, in order to benefit from the advantages of pesticides and reduce their risks, utmost care and sensitivity must be taken in the seven stages of production, research, recommendation, supply, distribution, extension and decision-making for their use.

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ZAND, ESKANDAR, Sasanfar, Hamidreza, RAMEZANI, MOHAMMAD KAZEM, & Khalil Tahmasebi, Behrouz. (2023). The use of pesticides in agriculture is a two-edged sword! Which edge is sharper?. IRANIAN WEED SCIENCE CONGRESS. SID. https://sid.ir/paper/1128227/en

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ZAND ESKANDAR, Sasanfar Hamidreza, RAMEZANI MOHAMMAD KAZEM, Khalil Tahmasebi Behrouz. The use of pesticides in agriculture is a two-edged sword! Which edge is sharper?. 2023. Available from: https://sid.ir/paper/1128227/en

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ESKANDAR ZAND, Hamidreza Sasanfar, MOHAMMAD KAZEM RAMEZANI, and Behrouz Khalil Tahmasebi, “The use of pesticides in agriculture is a two-edged sword! Which edge is sharper?,” presented at the IRANIAN WEED SCIENCE CONGRESS. 2023, [Online]. Available: https://sid.ir/paper/1128227/en

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