Soil Pollution

Soil Pollutants

Pesticides

• General term comprising of
  • fungicides
  • rodenticides
  • weedicides
  • herbicides
  • insecticides
• Legislations relating to Pesticides
  • International Code of Conduct on Pesticide Management 2014
  • In India ⤵️
    • Insecticides Act of 1968
    • T. P. Rajendran Committee
    • Pesticides Management Bill 2020

Pesticides in India

• subject to approval by MoA
  • 292 approved
    • 66 ➡️ Class-I Pesticide
      • 27 ➡️ extremely toxic
        • potential poisons for humans

Examples of some Pesticides

• Carbofuran

• Monocrotophos

• Atrazine

• Methomyl

• Phosphamidon

• phorate

• *dicotol

• *butachlor

• *dinocap

• chlorpyrifos

  *→ T. P. Rajendran Committee recommended to ban these 3