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A gel filled with nematodes has proven effective in safeguarding crops from pests, eliminating the need for harmful pesticides. These nematodes, typically unable to survive above ground, are the key component of this environmentally-friendly solution. #EcoFriendlyGel #Pesticides #Scitke

A gel filled with nematodes has proven effective in safeguarding crops from pests, eliminating the need for harmful pesticides. These nematodes, typically unable to survive above ground, are the key component of this environmentally-friendly solution. #EcoFriendlyGel #Pesticides #Scitke

A long read of a scientific article! Brilliant news though! The presence of multiple pesticide residues in vegetables has become an increasingly critical concern.  Preferable would be a reduction of pesticide use in the first place, by adopting integrated pest management or organic methods of growing crops. Exploring test strips for simultaneous detection of pesticides in vegetables: https://lnkd.in/eeUz5Euz #pestmonitoring #pestmanagement #pesticides #researchanddevelopment #horticulture #agricultureandfarming

Here's a post describing types of pesticides

Recognizing a wide array of adverse effects of synthetic #pesticides, this paper emphasizes the urgent need to de-chemicalise #agriculture and other sectors by using agroecological practices. International regulatory bodies, National and State governments have to put in concerted efforts to enable a paradigm shift in agriculture, in view of safety of agriculture #workers from pesticides, agriculture #sustainability, #food and #nutrition security, #biosafety, enhancing #livelihood options, #climatechange impacts, environmental safety and #publichealth.

🚦#Pesticides Use🚦 Did you know that pesticides can kill if wrongly used? Well, I knew this from a tender age but it was evident at 8 years of age when my grandma committed suicide consuming some. 🟢🟢🟢 Pesticides (synthetic/organic) are meant to help in management of pests and diseases for optimum production of crops. However if wrongly used they have a potential of causing death. As an agronomist, 📢 please let the farmers know that: 📌 Part of their products consumers lives lies on their hands. How they grow theirs crops has an impact on their health too 🥙🥣. 📌 Reading and understanding the Pesticide Label before use is important. 🟠🟠🟠 Pesticide Label highlights 🍅 Preharvest Interval ✓ Observe the indicated PHI for effective management of pesticide residues in the produce. 🥦 ai ✓ Use pesticides with a different Active Ingredient in a sequence to control development of pesticide resistance among pests. 🟩 Appropriate protective clothing - PPE (use) ✓ To prevent exposure of the sprayer to pesticide during the application process. ♦️Toxicity levels ✓ Understand the color band - 🔴🟡🔵🟢 💧Rates of application - ✓Use the correct pesticides dilution rates. 🏞️ Adhere to the listed handling instructions /pictograms ✓ Environmental hazard and first aid measures 🌹Re-entry intervals observance - to protect lives from exposure to pesticides. In nutshell, let's use the pesticides correctly (if need there be) to preserve life. #agriculture #horticulture #floriculture #pesticides #environment #farmers #farming

As a farmer, keeping your crops healthy and free from harmful pests is a no-brainer. However, the use of pesticides can be a daunting and time-consuming task. Furthermore, finding the correct pesticide labels is crucial. Fortunately, there is HortiPeMS. HortiPeMS has a robust database containing well over 140,000 pesticides and is constantly growing, with links to each pesticide's current and historical labels. Read More:

These two days the African Union is holding a Soil and Fertilizer conference in Nairobi without a consideration about the the health, safety and environmental damage caused by Fertilizers. All the top ministers from African States agreeing to increase their use of fertilizers to overcome land degradation!!I believe that anti pesticide/herbicide/fertilizer scientists will be the targeted and maybe discredited ( eg Julian Assange). This poisoning of humans and land is going on unhindered on a global scale # Africa Union # pesticide and fertilizer toxicity #agribusiness

Good news that the Government is planning to end the use of toxic #neonicotinoid #pesticides that threaten vital pollinators. Despite being banned from general use in the UK, the use of neonicotinoids was authorised every year for the last four years in England via a process known as emergency authorisation. Bees and other pollinators are crucial to the agricultural economy with the economic benefits of pollination to crop production in the UK estimated at £500 million annually.   https://lnkd.in/eh77heXX

Certainly#Francis Bosah chemical inputs in any form to humans and animals (e.g antibiotics) and the #environment particularly #soil have increasingly led to resistance by microbes. #Sustainable farming practices that uses natural selection process of plant growth promoting rhizobacteria #PGPR that secretes biopesticides as a strategy to survive #competition with other organisms is the way forward.