Pesticides and Environment, , Balwinder Singh, , G.S. Dhaliwal, Commonwealth Publishers Pvt. Ltd., 8171696279

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Pesticides and Environment

Balwinder Singh (Editor) G.S. Dhaliwal (Editor)

Synopsis Pesticides would continue to play a prominent role in insect pest management in the third millennium. Therefore, their use has to be optimized keeping in view the safety to consumers and effect on the environment. This would be particularly so in developing countries where farmers are shifting from subsistence farming to modern agriculture. The present book gives an overview of the impact of pesticides on different components of the environment, with particular reference to the developing world. The environmental implications of pesticides in the form of development of insecticide resistance, insecticide-induced resurgence in insect pests, effect on soil health and non-target organisms, and accumulation of pesticides in food commodities have been highlighted. In addition, the prospects of botanical and microbial pesticides, and strategies for pesticide management in developing countries have been outlined. The book would prove useful to teachers, researchers, students, policy makers and pesticide industry who are interested in promoting the cause of pesticides to eliminate hunger and ensure protection to the environment for future generations.

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About the authors

Balwinder Singh

Dr. Balwinder Singh is a Reader at Department of Commerce and Business Management, Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar. He has done doctoral research in the area of Capital Market. The areas of his interest are Capital Market and Banking. His research work has been published in reputed international and national journals like Journal of Internet Banking and Commerce, Journal of Applied Economics and Management, The ICFAI Journal of Applied Finance, The ICFAI Journal of Bank Management, etc. Earlier he has been Deputy Director of All India Services Pre Examination Coaching Centre. He has been teaching Commerce Optional to Civil Services aspirants for the last ten years.

G.S. Dhaliwal

G.S. Dhaliwal is Professor of Ecology in the Department of Entomology at the Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana, India. He did his Ph.D. from the Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi in 1972, where he was awarded the Gurprasad Pradhan Gold Medal. He remained Postdoctoral Fellow at the International Rice Research Institute, Manila, Philippines for two years. A member of the world Food Prize nominating Academy, Dr. Dhaliwal is Fellow of the National Environmental Science Academy (NESA), society of Pesticide Science India, society of Plant Protection Sciences and Entomological Society of India. Honored with the Best Scientist Award of NESA, he is the founder President of the Indian Society for the Advancement of Insect Science and Society of Biopesticide sciences India, President of the Indian Ecological Society as well as Vice-President of the Indian Society of Allelopathy and Society of Pesticide Science India. He has authored/edited more than 30 books on different aspects of pest management, environment and sustainable agriculture.

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