Date-barred insecticides
Wednesday, 5 May 2010
A report sometime was startling and should cause righteous indignation among all to be concerned by it. It stated that police had seized huge quantities of date-barred insecticides with the owner of the company distributing the stuff admitting under police interrogation that he has been selling the date-expired products among the farmers for a long time.
Insecticides are generally disapproved in many countries considering their health hazarding properties. The same are still sold in this country but reservations exist about their application and lately the official policy seems to be in favour of naturally protective ways of farming without insecticides. In this situation, if insecticides long past the safety period for their use, are capable of widespread utilisation, then one shudders to think of the human health risks from crops grown with such insecticides and also the toxicity to be caused to soil where the same are applied.
Zahirul Alam
Testuripara, Tejgaon, Dhaka.
Insecticides are generally disapproved in many countries considering their health hazarding properties. The same are still sold in this country but reservations exist about their application and lately the official policy seems to be in favour of naturally protective ways of farming without insecticides. In this situation, if insecticides long past the safety period for their use, are capable of widespread utilisation, then one shudders to think of the human health risks from crops grown with such insecticides and also the toxicity to be caused to soil where the same are applied.
Zahirul Alam
Testuripara, Tejgaon, Dhaka.