How Do Humans Use Pesticides Affect The Environment?

Pesticide is useful for managing agricultural pests around this world. They kill and repel pests to protect the plants and crops, but also cause a lot of human deaths each year. A pesticide is any substance used to kill, repel, or control certain forms of plant or animal life that are considered to be pests. It includes insecticides for controlling a wide variety of insects, fungicides used to prevent the growth of molds and mildew, disinfectants for preventing the spread of bacteria, and compounds used to control mice and rats. (NIH,2014). Human use of pesticides since 1940s for destroying weeds and other unwanted vegetation, that redeem agricultural output 15% loss every year, however, due to a long-term abuse of pesticides, it make the environment more harmful and destroy the ecosystem and human environment. Pesticide pollution becomes a …show more content…
Agriculture was developed to produce crops and livestock for human consumption. Nowadays, human population is rapidly increasing, the amount of food produced is very important. Unfortunately, there are other organisms out there that want to consume the crops. According to a research, it is estimated that nearly 37% of all crops produced in the United States each year are destroyed by agricultural pests, which results in an economic loss of around $122 billion a year. (Education Portal). Due to this high loss in food production, pesticides are often used to try to combat the problem. For benefit of pesticide among human lives, it helps increase food production, increased profits for farmers and the prevention of diseases. (Education Portal) When the farmer use pesticide on the crops or any food, the pests will not eat the food, the crops could get continuously growth and become human’s food. Otherwise, the crops will be destroyed and be eaten by the pests, this will affect the food production each year. Therefore, the farmers have to use pesticide to control these pests, repel them