Analysis of Pesticides in Vegetables, Degradation and its Side Effects: A Review Paper

The lack of irrigation facilities and poor irrigation system and due to the deficiency of agricultural knowledge, farmers introduce new brands of pesticides for their better production. Unaware of all the facts and health hazards, aim of farmers is only better productivity. Many pesticides are used in the homes, industries, hospitals, for killing pests like mosquitoes, mites, cockroaches, ants, aphids, worms, snails, etc. which are the source of spreading various diseases like mosquito causing malaria, yellow fever and west Neil virus and bees, wasps and ants spreading allergy. The data in part however, has been based on the side effects of pesticides used and one question that should come to our mind is “how much do we really know about pesticides? Keeping these facts in view, the literatures on the excess used of pesticides are reviewed in this paper.