Pesticides help farmers grow more food on less land by protecting crops from devastating weeds, pests and diseases. Without pesticides, agricultural productivity would decline by over 50 per cent, leading to serious food insecurity and collapse of commercial agriculture in the country. It is, therefore, practically impossible to produce food, fruits and vegetables of commercial quality and quantity without the judicious use of pesticides. All pesticides registered for use here undergo rigorous risk and safety assessment before approval by the Pest Control Products Board. The rise of cancer cases maybe be as a result of many factors, inherent and in our environment, including our diets, heredity, misuse of pesticides but not the pesticides themselves.

Source: The Star December 09, 2019 01:52 UTC