According to the United Nation’s report world population is projected to reach 10 billion by 2050.
For this growing population farmers will need to produce more food while preserving the environment for future generations. And being an informed part of society we also have a duty to help them to achieve this. Technology is becoming an integral part of our modern lives, the same way technology is also playing an important role in today’s agriculture sector as well. The farmers have already started using new technology in agriculture and these precision agriculture technologies have boosted crop yields significantly in the last decades.
In developing countries like India, over 80 percent of the rural population depends upon agriculture. But the farms then and now are facing challenges and losses due to diseases coming from the pests and insects, which, therefore, reduce the productivity of the crops. To get rid of these farm pests and insects as well as to increase the crop yield, many pesticides and fertilizers are used in the fields.
According to the World Health Organisation (WHO), around one million people are affected with improper handling/manual spraying of the pesticides. The pesticides may cause harmful effects to human health and to the environment. The improper handling may result in severe acute poisonings; in some cases, adverse health effects may also result from long-term, low-level exposures of pesticides.
This story is from the January - February 2019 edition of Business Of Agriculture.
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