Chemical Fertilizers and Pesticides in Indian Agriculture: Effect on Human Health and Environment

Author: Acharya Balkrishna, Jitendra Kumar Pandey, Pankaj Kumar Tripathi, Ritika Joshi and Vedpriya Arya

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Abstract

Green revolution has shown the way to the world, how to improve production in the agriculture products to achieved the food demand for the booming of world’s population. But along with the increase in the production of the food, the utilization of agrochemicals has also been increased very rapidly, and after few decades of start of green revolution, it had been increased up to the level, where it become one of the major environmental threat, which we have to address at an urgent basis. The uncontrolled use of these synthesised agrochemicals disturbing ecological dynamics, and creating several health related issues not only in the human being but in other living beings also. India is the biggest producer and consumer of agrochemicals in the world. This review is going to address the issues and impact of the production and consumption of these highly toxic and banned agrochemicals in India and how it is interfering with the health related problems.

Keywords

Chemical fertilizers, Banned pesticides, Plant growth regulators, Pollution, Human health.

Conclusion

Like the other developing countries, the economy of India heavily depends on agriculture. The green revolution achieved in India has been possible only because of the inputs to agriculture provided mainly by the energy sector, fertilizers, pesticides, and effective land and water resource management. But the continuous, uncontrolled, unscientific and exaggerated use of agrochemicals is adversely affecting our life, environment and biosphere at every level. They are not only responsible for water, air, soil pollutions but also disturbing the nutrients balance and pH, due to which a huge proportion of macro and microflora and fauna are under threat. They are also responsible for sever human health hazards and even death of person coming in directly or indirectly contact of these agrochemicals. Developing countries like India, which has an immense pressure of rapidly increasing human population, governments are primarily looking for industrial benefits and crop yield. But for the sustain

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Balkrishna, A., Pandey, J.K., Tripathi, P.K., Joshi, R. & Arya, V. (2021). Chemical Fertilizers and Pesticides in Indian Agriculture: Effect on Human Health and Environment. Biological Forum – An International Journal, 13(3): 407-422.