What precautions should be taken while spraying weedicides?why?
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Answer:
The farmers should cover their nose and mouth with a piece of cloth during spraying of weedicides. This is because spraying of weedicides may affect the health of farmers.
Weedicides are chemicals used to kill the unwanted plants that grow in the crop field.
Precautions using weedicides-
1. Live stocks should be kept away from the sprayed crops
2. Spraying should be done at the time when wind velocity is low and one should take care of direction of wind as well while spraying weedicides.
3. For effective control sunny weather is best.
4. Weedicides must be kept away from body and skin as , they can cause skin irritation.
Explanation:
We should spray weedicide in limited quantity because weedicide have great amount of chemicals which can affect the fertility of soil and also can affect the nourishment of crops . So to remove weeds we should spray weedicide in limited quantity.