Issues and Concerns of Pesticide Use in Agriculture: Exploring Facts from the Malwa Region of Indian Punjab
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2019
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International Conference on Applied Social Statistics (ICASS) - 2019, Department of Social Statistics, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka
Abstract
The Malwa region of Indian Punjab face a lot of environment and health issues due to the hazards, excessive, and unsafe use of pesticides, fertilizers, and poor groundwater quality. Cotton crop failure owing to white fly attack in Malwa region of Punjab in 2015 has proved environmental and climate changes have affected cropping pattern adversely that further leads to economic crisis of agrarian community.
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Pesticides, Cotton, Rice, Integrated Pest Management, India
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Kaur, S. Singh, K. and Singh, H. (2019). Issues and Concerns of Pesticide Use in Agriculture: Exploring Facts from the Malwa Region of Indian Punjab. International Conference on Applied Social Statistics (ICASS) - 2019, Department of Social Statistics, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka. p.11, 12, 13