INDIAN GEOGRAPHY

AGRICULTURE

AGRICULTURE AND ITS TYPES

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
what is pesticide?
A
a substance sprayed on crops to keep the insects away.
B
to keep people away.
C
a natural fertilizer
D
a substance sprayed on crops to keep animals and insects away.
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Pesticides are substances that are meant to control pests. This includes herbicide, insecticide, nematicide, molluscicide, piscicide, avicide, rodenticide, bactericide, insect repellent, animal repellent, microbicide, fungicide, and lampricide.

Detailed explanation-2: -Pesticides are the chemicals usually sprayed for killing pests on the crops.

Detailed explanation-3: -Pesticides are chemical substances that are meant to kill pests. In general, a pesticide is a chemical or a biological agent such as a virus, bacterium, antimicrobial, or disinfectant that deters, incapacitates, kills, pests.

Detailed explanation-4: -Organochlorides. The best known organochloride, DDT, was created by Swiss scientist Paul Müller. Organophosphates. Organophosphates are another large class of contact insecticides. Carbamates. Pyrethroids. Neonicotinoids. Phenylpyrazoles. Butenolides. Ryanoids/diamides.

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