What Is The Positive Effects Of Fertilizer And Pesticides?

Introduction

According to P. Venkata Laxma Reddy et al., (2014), In fact, it is roughly estimated that around 500 compounds have been registered globally as pesticides or their metabolites. Thus, pesticide products are documented as amongst the most hazardous substances invented by humankind, as substance that gives exacerbating deleterious effects. Based on reported in the scientific literature, the effects of fertilizers and pesticides are to say the least variable, it became clear evidence that certain product can have significant impacts, whether the effect can be positive or negative.

Positive effects of fertilizer and pesticide onto soil Pesticide and fertilizer serve many functions which are more essential to the society; there is

The chemical fertilizers and pesticides have effects on the soil organisms that are similar to human overuse of antibiotics. According to the soil scientist Dr. Elaine Ingham, she said that “If we lose both bacteria and fungi, then the soil degrades”. It meaning that some plants depends on a variety of soil microorganism to transform atmospheric nitrogen into nitrates, which plants can use. For example Toxic effects of high concentration of ammonia fertilizer on soil organism applied have been the potential damage to soil organism generally one issue to grower because some bacteria living inside the soil surface provides potential benefit for cropping. If chemical fertilizer unprofessional conduct used, it will affect to earthworm as a beneficial soil organism resulting in the loss an important actor playing the vital role as decomposer of land and cause loss of the land nutrient or organic matters effect for the soil loss of fertility.

Table 1: Effect of pesticides on soil microorganism

(Adapted from : Sarfraz Hussain, Tariq Siddique, Muhammad Saleem, Muhammad Arshad, and

Azeem Khalid., 2009. Impact of Pesticides on Soil Microbial Diversity, Enzymes, and Biochemical

Reactions. Advances in Agronomy, Volume 102.)

Biochemical Reactions in