Green revolution has solved the food problems of man kind to certain extent, but aggravated the human health problems. Indiscriminate use of pesticides to protect the crops from pests polluted the surroundings and affected the non-target organisms.Pesticides are considered as economic toxins. We use more pesticides because we want to produce more food and hence nutrition. So, man has been using more pesticides in spite of knowing the fact that pesticides are poison- causing both acute and chronic health effects. We can say that pesticide production is a poison - nutrition trade off. India...
Green revolution has solved the food problems of man kind to certain extent, but aggravated the human health problems. Indiscriminate use of pesticide...