What are the common pesticides used in agriculture and how do they contribute to water pollution?

Pesticides are heavily used to protect orchards, field crops, and vineyards, but they are also used in forestry, water management (such as coastal management), destruction of growths in irrigation canals, removal of undesirable stands on non-agricultural land (such as railroad embankments, playgrounds, handling areas, etc.), and other applications. Regular pesticide use raises the amount of pesticides in agricultural goods and the aquatic environment. They frequently appear in water, therefore it stands to reason that they are utilised extensively. These compounds' leftovers can linger in soil for two to twelve weeks. They are conveniently transferred from the soil to aquifers because of their strong water solubility.

Here we are going to discuss more about the pesticide types and the way they contribute to water pollution. So, let’s start learning…

A brief history of thePesticides

Pesticides have been around for a while. Pesticides were widely utilised in the past to safeguard crops against insects and other pests. The Sumerians of antiquity employed elemental sulphur to keep insects away from their crops. In contrast, farmers in the Middle Ages experimented with poisons on popular crops, including arsenic and lead.

To eradicate body lice and other pests, the Chinese utilised chemicals containing arsenic and mercury. While the Greeks and Romans employed products like oil, ash, sulphur, and other substances to save their crops, cattle, and themselves from numerous pests.

In contrast, research in the eighteenth century concentrated more on organic methods using substances created from the roots of chrysanthemums and tropical crops. Dichloro-Diphenyl-Trichloroethane (DDT), which was first developed in 1939, is now the most widely used insecticide in the world due to its exceptional effectiveness.

Types of pesticides:

Most pesticides have organic (contain carbon) or inorganic active components (minerals e.g. ferrous sulfate, copper sulfate, copper, sulfur, lime, etc.). In comparison to inorganic pesticides, organic pesticides are more complex and hydrophobic. Organic insecticides may be manufactured or natural (made from naturally occurring sources) (artificially produced by chemical synthesis in factories). The main pesticide categories used in the agriculture, forestry, med, landscaping, and vet industries are mentioned in the table below:

These are divided into groups based on the pests they kill:

·         Plant herbicides

·         Rats - rodenticides (rats & mice)

·         Bacteria-killing agents

·         Fungi-killing agents

·         Insecticides for larvae

 

Depending on how quickly they decompose:

Biodegradable: Biodegradable substances are those that can be converted into harmless chemicals by microorganisms and other living things.

Persistent: While those that may take months or years to degrade are considered persistent.

Pesticides with a chemical component:

Organophosphate: The majority of organophosphates are insecticides; they have an adverse effect on the nervous system by interfering with the activity of an enzyme that controls a neurotransmitter.

Carbamate: Like the organophosphorus pesticides, carbamate pesticides impair an enzyme that controls a neurotransmitter, which has an impact on the nervous system. The effects of enzymes are typically reversible, though.

Organochlorine insecticides: Once widely used, they have now been banned from sale in many nations because of their adverse effects on human health and the environment as well as their tenacity (e.g., DDT, chlordane, and toxaphene).

Pyrethroid: This is a synthetic form of the insecticide pyrethrin, which is naturally present in chrysanthemums (Flower). They were created in a way that maximised their environmental stability.

Sulfonylurea herbicides: Products including pyrithiobac-sodium, terbacil, cyclosulfamuron, bispyribac-sodium, and sulfometuron-methyl have been commercialised for the control of weeds. There are several different types of sulfurons, including sulfosulfuron, rimsulfuron, pyrazosulfuron-ethyl, nicosulfuron, oxasulfuron, imazosulfuron, flazasulfuron, primisulfuron-methyl, halosulfuron-methyl, flupyrsulfuron-methyl-sodium, ethoxysulfuron, chlorimur

Biopesticides: The term "biopesticides" refers to certain forms of pesticides made from natural substances such bacteria, animals, plants, and specific minerals.

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