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Ari: So an arsenic-based pesticide was, in fact, the lesser evil. Sam: Exactly. So, although a lot of what we will talk about today will paint pesticides in a less than glowing light, it’s important to state up front that without pesticides there would be a huge drop in agricultural production and some serious public health implications.
The word pesticide derives from the Latin pestis (plague) and caedere (kill). [5]The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has defined pesticide as: . any substance or mixture of substances intended for preventing, destroying, or controlling any pest, including vectors of human or animal disease, unwanted species of plants or animals, causing harm during or otherwise interfering with the ...
The first recorded use of insecticides is about 4500 years ago by Sumerians who used sulphur compounds to control insects and mites, whilst about 3200 years ago the Chinese were using mercury and arsenical compounds for controlling body lice4.
Pesticides are substances that are used to control and protect crops against pests. This includes herbicides, insecticides, fungicides, and other substances used to control other types of pests. Pesticides, in various forms, have been used for millennia in agriculture.
This chapter presents an introduction to pesticides, its history, uses, classifications, chemical structures, and mechanisms of actions. This chapter also documents plant chemical constituents with potentials as natural sources of pesticides.
pesticide, any toxic substance used to kill animals, fungi, or plants that cause economic damage to crop or ornamental plants or are hazardous to the health of domestic animals or humans.
This literature review firstly provides basic scientific information about the agricultural development process, the historical perspective of pesticide usage, general types of pesticide in use, and the role of pesticides in agriculture.