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Ahmed Alothman

Barr, Regina L

ENGL 1110

4/6/2015

Knutson, R. A, Taylor, C. R., Pen son, J. B. And Smith, E. G. “Safer Crops by Chemicals”

Associates, College Station, (1990). Retrieved March 2015

Knutson Taylor, Pen non and Smith mentioned that chemicals are hazardous substances

whose objective is to execute Pests. There is a high range of differentiated sorts of chemicals, with

varying uses. Some are extraordinarily intended to murder bugs, while others kick out parasites or

bacteria, some are utilized to execute rodents, and a developing sum is utilized to slaughter weeds.

On the other hand, the vast majority of these chemicals are likewise harmful to Pests as well as to

numerous types of plants and creatures, including people. Little amounts of these chemicals could

slaughter a man, make them sick or reason other long haul wellbeing issues. Pesticides are

chemicals that slaughter bothers (2015).

This article answers one of my research questions. The question asks about why do farmers

use chemicals. Farmers use chemicals to slaughter bugs, infections or weeds that could harm their

harvests, reducing the crop yields. Most agriculturists feel insecure since consumer protection is not

guaranteed when pests strike making the benefits minimized without chemicals. Lower yields are as

a result of low quality as a result of the harm caused by the notorious pests. With them serially

visiting the flourishing crops, there is no guarantee of safety, either on the grounds that they would

have lower yields or their items would have low quality. Worth noting, organic products with a

decent looking smooth skin can be marketed and sold at very impressive higher costs than natural

products with terrible looking and unpleasant skin. Ranchers shower to moderate harvest harm

created by bugs. A vermin is any natural organic entity that poses a threat to human living by

destroying crops and comprises weeds, pathogens, as well as arthropods, which impact greatly on

the quality of yields once meddled with them. Some of the impact felt by the crop yields are

permanent and cannot be reversed; translating to irrecoverable loses borne by customers that are as

a result of high production costs.

Human beings make very important steps and commit much of their energy in their pursuit

to keep the crops free from vermin and related diseases; it is easy to help in crop diseases control by

using crop assurance tools, stunning a range animal weed variety that includes plant maladies and

bugs that harm crops. Ranchers face ultimate tasks to try to keep these difficulties a bay all season,

it matters little whether they are natural or customary. The crop insurance items differ by

environment, topographical area as well as atmosphere, requiring every homestead to be secure in

the range of product items. Pesticides impact greatly where they land, whether on the crops or the

person spraying and the effect may range from irritation to infection. IPM is in light of intensive

comprehension of productive nature by ranchers which empower them to settle on educating

choices on the best methodology to grow a solid harvest and to deliver nourishment that is protected

and sound.

Chemicals, as mentioned throughout the paper are important, as may be a threat! The choice

rests with the user, to decide whether to invest in the chemical varieties to increase the crop

production or yield endless losses resulting from crop burnouts as well as health hazards that it may

bring when mishandled.

Ahmed Alothman

Barr, Regina L

ENGL 1110

4/6/2015

Chakraborty, S., Chakraborty, N., Agrawal, L., Ghosh, S., Narula, K., Shekhar, S., & Datta, A..

Next-generation protein-rich potato expressing the seed protein gene AmA1 is a result of proteome

rebalancing in transgenic tuber. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, (2010): 107(41).

Web. 28 Mar. 2015.

In the article Next-generation protein-rich potato expressing the seed protein gene AmA1 is

a result of proteome rebalancing in transgenic tuber, Chakraborty thinks that humans have brought

out a large number of chemical items into the environment. Some are the waste products from

industries and agricultural processes. Some have been made as structural materials while others

have been designed to perform various functions such as killing pests and weeds. Some chemicals

are helpful but many are poisonous and their injury, to the environment and our health dominate

their benefit to society. We need to maintain the exposure better by only using chemicals, which are

safe.

This article answers one research question. The question is does the agriculture needs all

these chemicals or we can avoid them. Chemicals get into the air as emissions and water as

emanation. Industrial diffusion of nitrogen and sulfur oxides cause acid rain, which kills fish and

other aquatic organisms in rivers and affects the capacity of the soil to support plants. Carbon

dioxide causes the greenhouse aftermath and climate change. Chlorofluorocarbons cause the

degradation of the ozone layer and cause the possibility of deliberate environmental damage from

ultraviolet dispersion. Chemical, fertilizers and nutrients run-off from farms cause the amplification

of toxic algae in rivers, making them uninhabitable to aquatic animals and displeasing for humans.

Some toxic chemicals find their way from landfill waste sites into our groundwater, rivers and

oceans and activate genetic changes that compromise the ability of life to reproduce and survive.

The contact of human activities on the environment is large and affects a chain of

interconnecting environs. The death of species all along the web means the loss of useful genetic

material and life-saving cancer treatment or safer alternatives to the alarming chemicals in use.

Additionally, harmful chemicals such as these are lead into the environment. They affect living

things which may not be discovered up to many years after their dispensation.

In short, some chemicals are important for agriculture and some other are not. We have to

try to use as less chemicals as we can because some of them are harmful for agriculture, animals

and human.

Ahmed Alothman

Barr, Regina L

ENGL 1110

4/6/2015

Horrigan, L., Lawrence, R. S. and Walker, P. "How Sustainable Agriculture Can Address the

Environmental and Human Health Harms of Industrial Agriculture." Environmental health

perspectives 110.5 (2002): 445-456.

Horrigan, Lawrence and Walker in their article titled "How sustainable agriculture can

address the environmental and human health harms of industrial agriculture" discuss in length the

impact that the agricultural practices in the modern world have not only the environment, but also

the inhabitants. The questions answered in the article start with the inquisition of what entails

industrial agriculture. According to the authors, this occurs when the farms are viewed as factories

with inputs and outputs; and controlled by the effort to increase productivity while minimizing

costs. This leads to the next question tackled which is the effect that such agricultural practices have

had on the land, water and the people themselves. Horrigan, Lawrence and walker then highlight the

concept of sustainable agriculture whereby systems that allow for agricultural practices to be

conducted in a more environmentally friendly way are used.

This article answers one of my research questions. The question asks that are the major areas

of the world which use chemicals to grow their agriculture. Through their findings therefore, it is

easy to pinpoint the areas where agricultural practices that make use of harmful chemicals are. First,

a trend has been observed all over the world when it comes to the rearing of cattle and the

subsequent beef uptake. More farmers are resulting into feeding cattle with grains which are very

inefficient in energy conversion. The result has been an increase in levels of meat eaten especially

in industrialized countries thus an increase in the chronic diseases affecting the people. The root

cause of this scenario is the chemicals used in agricultural practices may it be in crops or in

livestock.

Apart from the fertilizers, agriculturists are also reportedly using up to 3 million tons of

pesticides annually in their agricultural practices. The US is the major culprit contributing the

highest percentage to the pesticide use. When broken down, this leads to the release of more than

2000 chemicals into the world annually. The situation in the pesticide use is made worse by the fact

that only 0.1% of the chemicals in the pesticide end up in the actual crop. The rest is released to

harm the environment through various avenues.The US and China being the most affected countries

in this use of chemicals have faced certain consequences. China has for instance seen an increase in

the deaths of people due to chronic diseases, while the US has seen an increase in the in area of sea

referred to as the dead zone in the Gulf of Mexico.

Generally, the level of use of chemicals in agriculture has been on the increase especially in

America. The rest of the world also contributes to this with there being reported more than 2 million

poisonings and 10000 deaths annually due to agriculture related poisons.

Ahmed Alothman

Barr, Regina L

ENGL 1110

4/6/2015

Yang Meng, Overuse of fertilizers and pesticides is causing pollution and food safety problems.

What’s more, Chinese agriculture has now become reliant on these chemicals, China and the world

discuss environment, September, 2012

Yang Meng is the writer of this article titled “Overuse of fertilizers and pesticides is

causing pollution and food safety problems. What’s more, Chinese agriculture has now become

reliant on these chemicals.” In this article he had been helped on the technical part by Zeng

Fentiang an agricultural researcher in China. This article evaluates the impact of over use of

fertilizers to the soil in the long run and seeks to establish that they have some damaging impact on

the soil.

This article answers one of my research questions. The questions asks about is using

chemicals in agriculture discussed broadly by the experts in agronomy and environmentalists, as

they discuss the other issues very broadly. The article has two main issues that it responds to. The

first is whether use of much fertilizer makes the plants healthier, and secondly whether there is an

effect on the prolonged use of excess fertilizer to the environment. The conclusion of the paper are

derives from research done by Chinese Academy of agricultural science.

From a research conducted in several provinces, it has been establishes that of the fertilizer that is

used by the Chinese farmers, plants takes thirty present of the fertilizer. The rest of the fertilizer is

left dumped in the soil. Zeng says that in the following season, there will be an addition to this

fertilizer, but yet still; the plant intake is the same and the excess is left soil.

Zeng says that there in the past, the Chinese people did not need to use commercial

fertilizers. The soil was self sufficient and additions were usually done form cow waste. However,

when the western came into China, they introduced the commercial fertilizer. Over the number of

the years that the fertilizers have been in use, the soil has become dependent on the fertilizers. He

says that planting a crop now will not make not thrive unless fertilizer has been added to the soil.

The soils have become totally reliant on the fertilizers. Many farmers are also known to use

pesticides and herbicides in their farms. The farmers at most times want instant outcomes and they

thus end upon putting excess pesticides just to make sure the pests are completely dead. The excess

amount becomes a form of pollution as the excess amount ends up in the environment.

In short, using chemicals in agriculture discussed broadly by the experts. Experts concluded

that the using chemicals in agriculture excessively hurt the plants and the soil. This considered as

pollution to the environment.