Pesticide Persistence in Agriculture and its hazardous effects on Environmental Components

Pesticides are applied to protect crops from insects, weeds, and bacterial or fungal diseases during the growth. There would be a 78 percent loss of fruit output, 54 vegetable production, 32 cereal production if pesticides were not used. When target plant, they have potential enter environment where can affect non organisms. Concerns also been raised about pesticide currently uses its impact on with possibility for hazardous carcinogenic residues. This review paper provides basic information general types in use role agriculture environmental components. Int. J. Appl. Sci. Biotechnol. Vol 10(2): 75-83.