Malathion and Chlorpyrifos

  • Swarms of desert locusts have chomped through vegetation and crops across farm lands in Punjab, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Gujarat, Uttar Pradesh and Chhattisgarh.
  • The Locust Warning Organisation (LWO) sprayed Malathion 96 and Chlorpyrifos, both organophosphate pesticides, to control the locust swarms across states.
  • These are pesticideswhich are widely used in agriculture, residential landscaping, public recreation areas, and in public health pest control programs such as mosquito eradication.
  • Both are extremely toxic and high level of exposure to the pesticides may cause nausea, dizziness and even death. They can also impact soil fertility by altering the ecological balance.
  • The ....
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