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Herbicide Residue Research in India (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2019)
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Herbicide Residue Research in India (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2019)
Series: Environmental Chemistry for a Sustainable World, 12
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Herbicides constitute about 60% of the total pesticides consumed
globally. In India, the use of herbicides started initially in tea
gardens and picked up in the 1970s, when the high-yielding
varieties of rice and wheat were introduced. Presently, 67
herbicides are registered in the country for controlling weeds in
crops including cereals, pulses, oilseeds, fibre and tuber crops,
and also in the non-crop situations. These chemicals are becoming
increasingly popular because of their efficiency and relatively low
cost compared with manual or mechanical weeding operations. The
contribution of herbicide to total pesticide use, which was only
10-15% during the first decade of the 21st century, has now
increased to about 25% with an annual growth rate of 15-20%, which
is much higher than insecticides and fungicides. Though the
application of herbicides is minimizing yield loss to a great
extent, their residues in the food chain and surface and
groundwater create some environmental nuisance particularly to
non-target organisms. Research on pesticide residues in India was
started during 1970s, when such chemicals were introduced on a
greater scale along with high-yielding variety seeds, irrigation
and chemical fertilizers for increasing food production. However,
the herbicide residue research was not given much emphasis until
1990s. The Indian Council of Agricultural Research initiated a
national level programme known as All India Coordinated Research
Project on Weed Management through the NRC-Weed Science as the main
centre along with some centers of ICAR Institutes and state
agricultural universities. Over the last two decades, adequate
information was generated on estimation, degradation and mitigation
of herbicide residues, which were documented in annual reports,
bulletins, monographs and scientific articles. However, there was
no consolidated compilation of all the available information
providing a critical analysis of herbicide residues. Accordingly,
an effort has been made in the publication to compile the available
information on herbicide residues in India. This is the first
report of its kind which presents the findings of herbicide
residues and their interactions in the biotic and abiotic
environment. There are 16 chapters contributed by the leading
herbicide residue scientists, each describing the present status of
herbicide use, crops and cropping systems, monitoring, degradation
and mitigation, followed by conclusions and future lines of work.
This book will be useful to the weed scientists in general and
herbicide residue chemists in particular, besides the policy
makers, students and all those concerned with the agricultural
production in the country.
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