Legal Method
Legal Method
Legal Method
1) Legislation to prevent introduction of new pest disease & weeds from foreign countries
1923 – Madras Govt. – act “remove & destroy affected leaves” against coconut BHHC
1929 – Cotton cushion scale – Rodelia cordinalis was left /S.cane top shoot bores –
remove the affected parts.
4) Legislation to prevent adulteration & misbranding of insecticides insecticide act 1968 GOI
– regulate import, manufacture, sale, transport distribution & use of insecticide to prevent rist
of human being & animals.
History of pesticides
Homer-100BC-sulphur
Dioscorides(40-90AD)-arsenic compound