Pesticides
A pesticide is a
chemical that is used to disrupt the development of unwanted plants, also known
as weeds, on land that has been or will be cultivated. Colombia has a very
similar system and process for registering agrochemicals and pesticides, in
some cases more stringent, compared to regulations of more developed nations.
Weeds are those that grow and develop in an
inappropriate place. Most weeds have the same characteristics:
-They are easily dispersed, they usually do it
thanks to the wind, they crawl through the water and have great resistance due
to their high seed production.
In Colombia, the
pesticide industry begins with the formulation of products in 1962, based on
imports of active ingredients from different countries of the world. In 1964 the technology of the industry was
extended towards the synthesis of some active ingredients, based on the use of
raw materials of national or imported origin. National synthesis is formalized
in 1985 with a herbicide and in 1995 with a fungicide (ICA 1995).
Given the high variety
of pesticides offered and available, the producers were oriented towards the
excessive and indiscriminate use of such products, having a visible impact on
health due to acute and chronic poisoning, in addition to the environmental
effects on the soil, water, air and The
Biodiversity.
Fortunately, in
Colombia the sale of pesticides is not as high as in other countries such as
China, the United States and Argentina respectively; however, it does not
exclude it from being a highly commercial country, since its sale has
reportedly increased in the last 15 years. Among the problems that they generate we find those which affect the production of the crops, caused by the use of resources, such
as space, light, water. They also affect the harvesting, hindering or slowing
the crops' production.
In Colombia, marijuana
was sprinkled with Gramoxone, whose ingredient is Parquat, in the Sierra Nevada
and in Urabá in 1985-1987 and then the crops migrated to the USA. UU. On the coca rains glyphosate from the
days when the Berlin Wall fell (1989) and the Cold War is over and it is
estimated that air sprays have affected 1,753,386 hectares.
Exposure of human beings to glyphosate can have
chronic effects, such as birth defects, cancer, neurological (it is believed that
it can cause Parkinson's disease), in addition to other acute effects caused by
the exemplary use of the product by farmers, and also if there is a misuse of glyphosate or it is close to a
population, it could cause the inhabitants to have an exposure to glyphosate.
Congenital defects experienced by women in Argentina and
Adriana Butron, Heidi Rico,
Giselle
Rico, Step 10
