Agrochemicals and their harmful effects on health

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In this new issue, I intend to outline some aspects of agro-ecological, in order to warn about the harmful effects generated by agrochemicals at the level of ecosystems and its impact on our health, it is important to note that the article emphasizes the damage caused mainly on health.

In the last years the scientific community of Agroecological, cut has dedicated special attention to the development of new technologies that facilitate the use of agricultural practices of sustainable production, directed to the rational exploitation of the natural resources, tending in addition to diminish the environmental impact that the indiscriminate use of agrochemical products generates on the ecosystems.


Fig. 2 The areas destined for the establishment of agricultural crops have been disproportionately contaminated with synthetic products. Image of public domain, Author: Wuzefe, 2012

The adverse effects that the agrochemicals produce on the environment, has caused in the scientific community the development of Bio-products, as a strategy that allows to reduce the use of products of synthetic origin, generally used in the programs of agricultural fertilization, call; eradication of arvenses species (previously weeds), control of insects and diseases, this with the purpose of obtaining optimal yields from the productive point of view, action that entails of uncontrolled form the contamination of the air, water, grounds, trofic chains in the ecosystems.


Fig. 3 The synthetic products that are applied in the agricultural activity, cause metabolic and neurological alterations in both animals and humans. Image of public domain, Author: Atdsphoto, 2018

However, according to data revealed by the WHO (World Health Organization), in addition to the negative impact on ecosystems, the excessive application of Agrochemicals also affects the health of farmers, peasants and consumers in general.

The harmful effects caused by agrochemicals on health include essentially those of the skin type, characterized by allergic reactions induced by contact with pesticides containing Dichloro diphenyl trichloroethane (DDT), in addition to direct effects on metabolic and neurological alterations frequently associated with contact with products based on Organochlorines (OC), without ignoring, the carcinogenic effect of these synthetic products, and the lesions that they generate to the central nervous system in people who have ingested food directly cultivated with agrochemicals.


Fig. 4 The scientific community, reported that agro-toxins are associated with the appearance of cancer. Image of public domain, Author: Pdpics, 2013

To conclude, and in consideration of this alarming situation, it is necessary for the scientific community to promote the development of organic technologies that are easy for farmers to apply, that contribute to the improvement of crop production on a global scale, and at the same time avoid harmful effects on health.


BIBLIOGRAPHICAL REFERENCES CONSULTED:


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The cover image was designed by the author: @lupafilotaxia, incorporating the background Public domain image


Original manuscript, uploaded from the ecoTrain community website




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Hive is shit- and Steem's course is soon 50% higher than HIVE's. And are you all still happy here ? You have been lured here by a gang of power obsessed witnesses, who only wanted to enrich themselves and also have been lured here on the chain that is doomed to perdition.

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