40 pc fake pesticides being used in country: Study
Illiteracy and unawareness of farmers accompanied by bizmen’s lack of scientific technology and negative market system is responsible for usage of almost forty per cent of spurious pesticides in the country resulting in adverse impact not only on the crop production but it also causes environmental degradation. According to industry sources, in the financial year 2014 , forty per cent of the total pesticides sold were fake.The products are of poor quality and are not capable of killing insects and pests.
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