Another wrong interpretation about agriculture is Pesticide, People think Pesticide is bad for human health and environment but your wrong. Because Pesticide is Essential and we can’t live without them.

This article was inspired by the viral videos come-out on social media this past few months, it’s all about the #LugawIsEssentail where people of the Philippines debates and fights toward the person involved.
 
Pesticide is Essential is part of EUNOIA:Hybrid X4 where we focus on Agriculture, Issues and mis-interpretation in Farming. And if you haven’t read my past article please feel free to read. I think we should start now.

Pesticide is Essential

When we hear the word Pesticide what is the first thing come out in our mind? Its harmful to environment, deadly to humans and animals, and its kills the earth. But maybe after reading this you will understand more about overrated pesticides.

We used pesticide in our entire daily life, from the moment when born until now we consume, used and even applying it our body.
 
In our garment, we can’t wash them using detergent, and even fabric conditioner (which has toxicity to be consider pesticide). In the plate we eat, we used liquid detergent. In our body we used soap, shampoo, and even perfumes. Which is considered Pesticide. So, are pesticide harmful? No, it’s not but the toxicity inside is considered deadly.
 
Real Pesticide are also in our home. What you use to kill mosquito or bug inside your house? Its pesticide.

Life Before Pesticide

If Pesticide wasn’t invented, our world in under chaos. Insect are most dominant in the earth, they could multiple fast and some don’t need male organism to fertilized their eggs.

Pest may cause famine, they will compete our food resource. So, people at the earlier mostly Chinese, they using soap to kill ants and wax to prevent bugs form their crops.
 
The sad reality is that people used Pesticide not to control but to irradicate. At first, People invented chemicals (mostly from plant extract) until they think it’s not enough, so they began to try other human made chemicals (mostly sulfur).
 
Control, in Toxicology (study of toxicity and chemical property) control is define as kill half of the insect population. While Eradication kills all the insect pest under the crop management.
 
People choice to eradicate all insect pest so they think It’s a good ideal for business, more food to produce. But ended up worst. Because they don’t realize that insects pest they want to eradicate had been evolve to something much more resistant to what they used against them. So, people need to upgrade to stronger chemicals.

Life After Pesticide

This is the worst time in Agriculture. Humans had thought business than the effect. They want to grow more, try another crop, processed the crops, they want to conquer the world using their crop.
 
Under the intervention of machines, airplane had invented and they think using technology is much easier than manual spraying. And this began the use of excessive insecticide that’s kill many insect, insect predators or natural insect enemy. 

As the natural ecosystem, food chain and food web. Predator insect has low time to multiply while the insect pest could do it even with no partners involved. So, the world that time new tolerated species evolve from the ground.
 
And for the past article I tackled about the GMO (Genetically Modified Organisms) and Bt. Which is the natural pesticide as they said. So, we consumed already pesticide even without chemical application involved.
 
Going deeper from the story, after the story of Pesticide untold, government in the Philippines had restricted the used of strong chemicals, and began to educate people about the Economic Threshold Level.
 
ETL (Economic Threshold Level), is the degree of manifestations of insect to used or recommend desired level of pesticide to used. If the damage is below ETL use of chemicals is advised as not yet needed. If they exceeded the ETL they recommend farmers to used chemicals but not the strong Pesticides.
 
In the Philippines, if Agricultural Suppliers sold a harmful chemical to a farmer without proper license from DA (Department of Agriculture), the Suppliers will fine not lower than Million Pesos. So, supplier is really careful for the chemicals.

Life if Pesticide Vanished

Just like GMO and Bt, Life of humans without Pesticide is chaos. Because Pesticide is now Essential.
 
In modern world or in our time now, people think Pesticide as bad culprit. They overrated the word Pesticide. But People don’t know that we used pesticide in our daily life.
 
And if we considered that Pesticide to be gone this will be probably happened.
 
Remember the time of Moises, where God let the insect pest conquer the harvested crop and even life of humans. They will be carrier of diseases that will harm both human, animals and even plants. 

Because of cutting down forest, which serves as their lost habitat. They will begin to travel to farm nearby. And if government abolish the used of Pesticide chances are, we were encounter famine and worst we will all die.

Pesticide Substitute

In Natural Farming or Organic Practices, there is a Natural remedy for insecticide that is BIO-ASSAY. 

BIO-ASSAY, is derived from plant extract with natural toxic substance to produce a natural Pesticide, but it has low potent so I think this material is needed to be studied and research more.
 
 Some of plant extract could use is.
 
 1.      Garlic (Allium sativum)

2.      Chili (Capsicum frutescens)

3.      Oregano (Origanum vulgare)

4.      Kakawate (Gliricidia sepium)

5.      Bitter melon (Momordica charantia)

Pesticide is Really Essential

Like the #LugawIsEssential the Pesticide also had debates if it’s really essential of not, but for me Pesticide is Essential we could never live without it.
 
 So if you heard about Pesticides, not all pesticides are bad, some are really intended for humans health and living practices.
 
 #PesticideIsEssential.

UP NEXT: We will continue Pesticide, we will going travel from the past. "The Silent Spring" the book that makes the world shakes and started the universe to continue or abort using Pesticide.

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