The advantages of using pesticides?

Answer 1

The advantages of using pesticides are that they show immediate effects oftentimes. The disadvantages of using them though, far outweigh the advantages. Pesticides are poisons, and the poisons are not limited to their target pest. They can harm beneficial insects, aquatic ecosystems, humans (including children) and all those organisms can be affected sub-leathally, meaning you can't see the effects until it is too late.

Answer 2

BAD question
BAD,thought
BAD person

pesticides and herbicides are wrong all the time as well as fertilizers

there are no exceptions
they contaminate ground waters ,raise the PH and affect human childbirth very negatively.
And desertification is usually the final product when the soil has been killed by agro chemicals and heavy equipment

Alternative Farming Methods ,that are sustainable and autosufficient ,using proved organic methods are the answer

there are hundreds of ways to get rid of pests either by design (diversity)or organic methods of pest control

herbicides are rediculous
just a mulch cover gets rid of weeds and produces compost this also makes fertilizers obsolete

MULCH
what you do is to cover the ground with mulch which is the same principal as compost but it includes the whole garden surface
the top part of the soil where the topsoil is being produced houses a world or microbiotic life.

Mulch is organic material green or dry that covers the ground,the thicker the better the composting process will turn it in to black topsoil

the humidity is preserved underneath and promotes the devellopment of worms,who airate the soil (their exists no better compost than their excrements)and a variety of micro biotic life which together with the mulch produce more topsoil.

the mulch also keeps the ground temperature even and guards against the impact of the rain ,which would other wise brings salt to the surfave if on unprotected land

Mulch also prevents the soil from drying out because of the sun and, lay it open to wind erosian.

and it turn out the lights for any weeds that want to come up

do not use chemicals because the water will wash them into the ground and if enough people did that, you would be guilty of helping to contaminate subteranean water suplies that other people could be pumping up to drink,

ALTERNATIVE FARMING
read up on Organic Farming and Permaculture
A lot of hardcore Intelligent farmers are changing for sustainable farming
instead of the quick 3 to 5 years of intense monocultures that kill the ground and then live with the consequences

and dont talk dirty again,mentioning pestecides and herbicides , there are childen on this show

NOTE ON ORGANIC PEST CONTROL

Just a few examples of organic pest control and there are thousands

In Mexico we got a sort of small lizard that lives on the wall ,and sit near the lamps ,and eat mosquitos all night,

in the mango orchards we release laboratory bred wasps to attack and kill the caterpillars that go for the mangos

there are small chickens, called a silky or bantom or chaparito which are all small chickens that do not scratch ,but run after ,jumping and walking insects,they take care of about 70 percent of all garden pests.

feasants,guinyfowel,partridge will do the same work
iguanas kill grashoppers and all kinds of flying insects

birds we also dont kill
when the passion fruit is ripe ,a little black caterpiller comes and wants to destroy them,luckely a little finch type bird turns up and eats the black caterpillars.

In Mexico we have let mazacoas,which are, python type snakes in to the garden to take care of the rats.
In Africa we released mole snakes into the garden and field to combat the plagues of Norwegian rats that were destroying the fields

ant eaters and armadillos take care of leafcutting ants that can destroy a large tree in a week.and eat beatles and such

potbelly pigs and deer and normal pigs are good in an orchard because they eat fallen rotting fruit which breeds a lot of small flies.

in our water reservoirs we put fish to eat the mosquito larvas.

i have bred tree frogs from eggs and released them in the garden to eat mosquitos and horse flies.

Source(s):

Permaculture is a world recognised earth friendly movement but tends to include people that practice the concept and is active in all fields

Permaculture means permanent agriculture
a concept put forward by Bill Mollisson in the 60`s
which is a complete hand book for environmental design.

With practical solutions for energy systems ,infrastructure ,housing,
animal shelter ,water systems and sustainable agricultural practises.
With the world and it`s history as it`s source
From the chinampas of Mexico to the teraced gardens of the Andes.
From the dessert whadis to the steppes of Russia.
Covering all climatic conditions temporal, dessert, humid and dry tropics.
with chapters on soil ,Water harvesting and land design,
Earth working ,Spirals in nature,Trees and water ,utilising energy flows,
Strategy for an alternative nation

the Permaculture designers manual by Bill Mollison,which cost about 40 dollars.
and is the best all round book you can get.(tagiari publishing, [e-mail])

you could ask at any of the directions below

some other writers that are on the internet are
david Holmgren
Larry Santoyo
Kirk Hanson

Masanobu Fukuaka has written ,
One-Straw Revolution
The Road Back to Nature
The Natural Way of Farming
http://www.context.org/iclib/ic14/fukuok...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/masanobu_fu...

Simon Henderson
and Bill Molisson.

a representitive of the concept in USA is
Dan Hemenway at [e-mail]
[e-mail]
http://barkingfrogspc.tripod.com/frames....
http://csf.colorado.edu/perma/ypc_catalo...

Answer 3

Yes I lived in Ecuador and I know that the apples had no pesticides used on them as they were covered with warts from all the insect bites. That is organic grown.

Answer 4

According to Borat, in Kazakhstan you can give 100 lbs of pesticides to farmers to buy their daughter

Answer 5

Only to control pests that are over reproducing and cannot be controled by other pests.