JU 'IRES' launched to restrict use of insecticide
Sunday, 27 December 2009
JAHANGIRNAGAR UNIVERSITY, Dec 26 (BSS): To restrict the use of insecticides and chemical fertilisers for maintaining ecological balance an insect laboratory named "Insect Rearing and Experimental Station" (IRES), first of its kind in Bangladesh was launched at the Jahangirnagar University (JU) campus September 17.
The Zoology Department of JU has set up the laboratory here to carry out research on insects and their habitats. "Undue use of insecticides and chemical fertilisers is affecting the environment," Prof Dr Abdus Salam, Chairman of Zoology Department said this at a view exchange meeting here Saturday.
Reducing the use of fertilisers would be possible for protecting insects in a natural way by using insects as a defender of others, he said.
Successful use of legal pesticide and other related ideas among farmers could boost production, he said, adding that different kinds of banned pesticides like DTP are being smuggled in from neighbouring countries which was severely and permanently affecting our agriculture and ecological balance.
About 100 kinds of pesticides are being used in agriculture and their number is increasing day by day. In this regard the government and non-governmental organisations should think of a better option by avoiding pesticides.
Prof Dr Md Abdul Zabbar Hawladar, a teacher of the Zoology Department said the negative impacts on insects that cause havoc to agriculture are being researched here.
A comprehensive research on removing mosquitoes by using leaves of trees has already been started here with 23 species of mosquitoes and 100 varieties of trees.
The Zoology Department of JU has set up the laboratory here to carry out research on insects and their habitats. "Undue use of insecticides and chemical fertilisers is affecting the environment," Prof Dr Abdus Salam, Chairman of Zoology Department said this at a view exchange meeting here Saturday.
Reducing the use of fertilisers would be possible for protecting insects in a natural way by using insects as a defender of others, he said.
Successful use of legal pesticide and other related ideas among farmers could boost production, he said, adding that different kinds of banned pesticides like DTP are being smuggled in from neighbouring countries which was severely and permanently affecting our agriculture and ecological balance.
About 100 kinds of pesticides are being used in agriculture and their number is increasing day by day. In this regard the government and non-governmental organisations should think of a better option by avoiding pesticides.
Prof Dr Md Abdul Zabbar Hawladar, a teacher of the Zoology Department said the negative impacts on insects that cause havoc to agriculture are being researched here.
A comprehensive research on removing mosquitoes by using leaves of trees has already been started here with 23 species of mosquitoes and 100 varieties of trees.