Prevent toxins from getting into water bodies
Thursday, 11 November 2010
REPORTS say eight to ten thousand tons of insecticides and pesticides are used in agricultural lands in the northern districts and nearly 50 per cent of the same pass into water bodies. No figure is available for similar passing of insecticides and pesticides into water bodies located in other parts of the country. But the same are unlikely to be less than in the northern districts.
The chemicals are poisonous for the fish and the environment. Immediate stringent regulations are needed to ensure safe use of pesticides and insecticides to prevent them from passing into water bodies which are the natural breeding grounds of fishes. It would be if improper or random use of chemical pesticides and insecticides is banned. In many countries, farmers are practising natural ways of pest control without using chemical poisons. The same should be encouraged in Bangladesh.
Publicity, to make people more caring and conscious in the use of such chemical agents, is also needed.
Catching and netting fish fries, also pose hazards to the water bodies. The prevailing enforcement measures should be stepped up with a greater zeal in order to punish the offenders. All man-made interferences in the way of free and healthful breeding of fishes in their natural habitats must be removed.
Amina Mohsin
Nilklhet,
Dhaka
The chemicals are poisonous for the fish and the environment. Immediate stringent regulations are needed to ensure safe use of pesticides and insecticides to prevent them from passing into water bodies which are the natural breeding grounds of fishes. It would be if improper or random use of chemical pesticides and insecticides is banned. In many countries, farmers are practising natural ways of pest control without using chemical poisons. The same should be encouraged in Bangladesh.
Publicity, to make people more caring and conscious in the use of such chemical agents, is also needed.
Catching and netting fish fries, also pose hazards to the water bodies. The prevailing enforcement measures should be stepped up with a greater zeal in order to punish the offenders. All man-made interferences in the way of free and healthful breeding of fishes in their natural habitats must be removed.
Amina Mohsin
Nilklhet,
Dhaka