Question

Explain the effects of agrochemicals on environment

Answer 1

An agrochemical or agrichemical, a contraction of agricultural chemical, is a chemical product used in agriculture. In most cases, agrichemical refers to pesticides including insecticides, herbicides, fungicides and nematicides.

Impact on environment. 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.

Pesticides have been linked to a wide range of human health hazards, ranging from short-term impacts such as headaches and nausea to chronic impacts like cancer, reproductive harm, and endocrine disruption.

Answer 2

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• pesticides and fertilisers are the two types of agrochemical. Pesticides include insecticide, fungicides, weedicides, etc. They destroy the ecosystem of the soil. Fertilizers cause soil deterioration through decrease of natural microflora. Leaching down of fertilizers causes pollution of underground water.

• Salts introducing crop plants in more may prove harmful.

• eg. Nitrate rich leaves, fruit and water produce nitrate in Alim. Canal that enters blood, combines with Hb to form met-haemoglobin and reducing O2 transport. It may prove fatal in infant.