Rice (Oryza Sativa. L) is staple food and in Pakistan 5547 thousand tons of area is under rice cultivation. The productivity of rice can be enhanced by use of pesticides but once these toxic chemicals are applied to rice crop some of their residues remain on crops. The presence of these pesticides can pose risk to humans and also to the environment either directly or indirectly. So the present study was conducted to estimate the residual level of some selected organochlorine pesticides (OCPs) in rice grains and straw samples collected from different areas of Punjab, Pakistan. According to...
Rice (Oryza Sativa. L) is staple food and in Pakistan 5547 thousand tons of area is under rice cultivation. The productivity of rice can be enhanced b...