Pesticides are important. They help farmers grow more food on less land by protecting crops from pests, diseases and weeds as well as raising productivity per acre. All farmers use pesticides, including organic farmers. Whether from synthetic or natural sources, pesticides are used by all farmers. The difference is organic farmers can only use pesticides from natural sources. But both synthetic and natural pesticides have various levels of toxicity.

Without pesticides, more than half of our crops would be lost to pests and diseases. Pesticides enable farmers to produce safe, quality foods at affordable prices. Crop quantity and quality rely on crop protection. Pesticides include insecticides, fungicides, herbicides, nematocides (used to kill nematodes, elongated cylindrical worms), and rodenticides. Shivashakti is formulating various pesticides as follows…