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Fertilizers and Pesticides |
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The foods we eat today contain POPs, or persistent
organic pollutants, like DDT, Benzene Hexachloride (BHC), Aldrin,
Dieldrin, Lindane and many others. All these chemicals are capable of producing functional
disorders and diseases in human beings like liver and blood cancer,
cerebral palsy, epilepsy, mental retardation, congenital handicaps, asthma
and infertility. |
| Chemical Fertilizers |
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Concentrated chemical fertilizers that are rapidly
absorbed by plants produce quick growth — but it may kill important soil
organisms, such as earthworms and bacteria.
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Earthworms are described as the ‘lungs of the soil’ as
they increase the transmission of air in the soil as well as the
absorption of nutrients by the soil. Poabs Green Organic Bio Manure
facilitates the growth of earthworms in the
soil. |
| Pesticides |
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Many peregrine falcons in Europe and America failed to
breed in the 1960s, or laid thin-shelled eggs. This was due to pesticide
contents in their food that had been accumulated in their bodies,
affecting in turn their reproductive systems. More and more chemicals are sprayed on rice fields to
kill pests that attack rice. As a result, a pest called the brown
plant-hopper became resistant to these pesticides. These pesticides no
longer kill this pest, at the same time many of the plant-hopper’s natural
enemies, such as spiders and bees are killed. To kill pests or control weeds poisonous chemicals are
sprayed on fields. These pesticides, like fertilizers, have brought many
benefits by controlling dangerous insect spread diseases and by helping to
increase crop yields. Unfortunately, they also cause massive untold damage
to organic life system. People living in Swarga, a place in Padre village of
Kasaragod district (in the south Indian state of Kerala) are reeling under
an onslaught of crippling diseases. This is due to the spraying of
Endosulfan on its cashew plantation for the last 23 years. (Swarga in the
vernacular Malayalam means the heaven.) “Within days of spraying the pesticide, honeybees could
be found dying in whole bunches,” says Dr Sripathi Kanjampady, a
physician. “There is no scientific evidence to blame Endosulfan
for what has been happening, but circumstantial evidence indicates a
link,” says Mohankumar, another physician. “All congenial diseases have
occurred in children born after the spraying had started. Also, in the
case of people who died of cancer, the growth started after the spraying
of Endosulfan.” |