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Health and environmental problems create by chemical pestticides

The use of chemical pesticides has not only caused health and environmental problems, but also increased the cost of production, leading farmers to debt traps and suicides.  

It preserved the diverse life forms with the agro-ecosystems and promoted the conservation of bio-diversity within farming systems.

However, in the wake of Green Revolution many new problems arose due to use of chemical fertilizers and pesticides and the study noted: “The higher dose of pesticides coupled with repeated uses increased the production cost of cotton cultivation manifold".