Threats to human health when pesticides try to protect crops Raju Thapa of Dang's Tulsipur sub-metropolitan city-12 Dokrena has cultivated vegetables on 10 bighas of land. In his farm, which has been cultivated commercially since 2076, vegetables such as Parsi, Golvenda, Cauli are now planted. Thapa had planted 'Gaurav' and 'Chow' varieties of Golva in 3 out of 10 bigha fields. However, the sheep named Chow suddenly died. When the ripening lambs started dying rapidly, he called a technician and administered medicine. But the golbenda plants did not stop dying. Showing the calculation that it cost 10 lakhs to plant this farm, Thapa says, 'If we could have sold all the fruits, we would have earned 18 lakhs. Every year such a problem occurs in some crop. When the problem started, I tried to save the vegetables, even if it was by using pesticides. In Thapa's experience, efforts to save vegetables through pesticides and medicines have become regular and mandator
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