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Traditional Practices in Agriculture FULL - ANGOC Site

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This vicious cycle caused by the use of chemical pesticide not only<br />

makes the pest problem worse but also creates health hazards. The<br />

farmers who use the chemical pesticide (poison) are affected first,<br />

and those who eat the poisoned products are affected<br />

consequently.<br />

Diseases<br />

Diseases follow more or less the same pattern. Diseases will never<br />

be controlled by chemical pesticides (fungicide, etc.) Use of<br />

agricultural chemicals to control diseases causes the same vicious<br />

cycle <strong>in</strong> the follow<strong>in</strong>g ways:<br />

1. Specific micro-organisms (the disease germs), which cause<br />

plant disease, are very flexible <strong>in</strong> chang<strong>in</strong>g their character to<br />

adjust to the change of circumstance. They can easily grow<br />

resistant to the pesticide.<br />

There are also certa<strong>in</strong> micro-organisms terms as “Nematodes”<br />

which suck the sap from the root zones and cause deleterious effect<br />

on the crop yield.

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