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    B. Pesticides and Agricultural Impacts of Pomacea Canaliculata

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    Pesticides are important for farmers to protect crops from pests and diseases, allowing them to produce more food on less land. Without pesticides, over half of crops could be lost annually. The golden apple snail is a serious pest in the Philippines that eats and destroys rice plants. It can spread rapidly through water and bury itself when water is absent, emerging when fields are flooded again. Mahogany bark and leaves contain antibacterial properties and compounds that could potentially be used as natural pesticides by farmers to deter crop pests like the golden apple snail.

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    Pesticides are important for farmers to protect crops from pests and diseases, allowing them to produce more food on less land. Without pesticides, over half of crops could be lost annually. The golden apple snail is a serious pest in the Philippines that eats and destroys rice plants. It can spread rapidly through water and bury itself when water is absent, emerging when fields are flooded again. Mahogany bark and leaves contain antibacterial properties and compounds that could potentially be used as natural pesticides by farmers to deter crop pests like the golden apple snail.

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    Pesticides are important for farmers to protect crops from pests and diseases, allowing them to produce more food on less land. Without pesticides, over half of crops could be lost annually. The golden apple snail is a serious pest in the Philippines that eats and destroys rice plants. It can spread rapidly through water and bury itself when water is absent, emerging when fields are flooded again. Mahogany bark and leaves contain antibacterial properties and compounds that could potentially be used as natural pesticides by farmers to deter crop pests like the golden apple snail.

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    B. Pesticides and Agricultural Impacts of Pomacea Canaliculata

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    Pesticides are important for farmers to protect crops from pests and diseases, allowing them to produce more food on less land. Without pesticides, over half of crops could be lost annually. The golden apple snail is a serious pest in the Philippines that eats and destroys rice plants. It can spread rapidly through water and bury itself when water is absent, emerging when fields are flooded again. Mahogany bark and leaves contain antibacterial properties and compounds that could potentially be used as natural pesticides by farmers to deter crop pests like the golden apple snail.

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    B.

    Pesticides and Agricultural Impacts of Pomacea canaliculata

    Pesticides are vital to the farmers for it helps them to grow more food on less land by

    protecting crops from pests, diseases and weeds as well as raising productivity per hectare.

    Without pesticides, more than half of our crops would be lost to pests and diseases.

    Between 26 and 40 percent of the world’s potential crop production is lost annually because of

    weeds, pests and diseases. Without crop protection, these losses could easily double (Crop Life,

    2018)

    Pesticides enable farmers to produce safe, quality foods at affordable prices. They also

    help farmers provide an abundance of nutritious, all-year-round foods, which are necessary for

    human health. Fruits and vegetables, which provide essential nutrients, are more abundant and

    affordable. Grains, milk and proteins, which are vital to childhood development, are more widely

    available because of lower costs to produce food and animal feed.

    Common crop pests involve rats, crickets, nematodes and snails. These pests hinder the

    production of food and reduce the income of the farmers. Farmers eradicate pests by crop

    rotation, cover crops, beneficial insects that attack pests, field vacuums, screens or barriers, using

    commercial pesticides and insecticides and plant extracts (Agriculture in the Classroom Canada,

    2014).

    The Pomacea canaliculata is a small and golden snail. It is called “Golden Apple Snail”,

    and it is also known as “golden kuhol”. In the Philippines, it was introduced between 1982 and

    1984. Golden apple snails become a serious problem for farmers because it eats crops and plants

    in these days in the Philippines (Pb Works, 2007).


    Snails are among the most destructive pests found in gardens and farms. One example of

    it is the Golden apple snail. Golden Apple Snails eat young and emerging rice plants. They cut

    the rice stem at the base, destroying the whole plant. Snails are able to spread through irrigation

    canals, natural water distribution pathways, and during flooding events. When water is absent,

    apple snails are able to bury themselves in the mud and hibernate for up to six months. When

    water is re-applied to fields, snails may emerge. They damage direct wet-seeded rice and

    transplanted rice up to 30 days old (International Rice Research Institute, 2015).

    Swietenia macrophylla commonly known as Mahogany. Mahogany is a common

    straight-grained, reddish-brown timber of three tropical wood species. Other than being a

    hardwood. It also possesses anti-bacterial properties. The bark and leaves can be used in many

    purposes.

    According to Paritala V. et. al., 2015, Mahogany has phytochemical properties such as

    anti-bacterial and anti-fungi which can be utilized to deter crop pests by farmers. When

    Mahogany’s bark is boiled, it releases enzymes; catechin and epicatechin (Falah S. et. al., 2008).

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