Pesticide Productivity and Food Security- A Review

Abstract:

The present population of 7 billion is projected to grow at the pace of 70 million per annum by the end of 2050. This increase in population will change the demand of food required throughout the world due to change in diet habit. But the main problem which exists is that the land is limited and cannot be increased with increase in food requirement. Any expansion in food demand will put pressure on agricultural land to produce for the extended food demand. Except this more land will be used for bio based commodities. Thus the need to grow more crop per piece of land becomes essential. Sustainable agriculture and production is a urgent need of present. The present review paper emphasize on following points(1) Worldwide crop losses (2) Pesticide related productivity (3) Cost benefit analysis of pesticides (4) Challenge of crop protection industry (5) Approaches to reduce yield losses. Thus the pesticides have a future role in deciding the fate of agriculture throughout the world.