Pesticides in Bangladesh

Matin, M.A.

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“…The main crop of Bangladesh is rice paddy, accounting for 75% of total agricultural land use and 80% of pesticide use. 14 Comparing annual rice production in Bangladesh with production in India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Myanmar from 1996 to 2014 ( Figure 3 ) revealed no apparent influence of the pesticide bans on crop production. Of note, overall pesticide, and insecticide, consumption increased for much of the period during which there was the rapid reduction in incidence of pesticide suicides.…”

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“…Organochlorine compounds were the main pesticides used in Bangladesh from 1950 until their withdrawal in the mid 1990s. 14 The widely used organophosphorus (OP) insecticide HHPs were banned at the end of 2000 when all Class I pesticides were banned from agricultural practice. 14 …”

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“…13 There is extensive use of pesticides in agriculture. 14 Self-poisoning by pesticide is a serious health problem responsible for about 40% of poisoning cases admitted to hospital and 8–10% of overall mortality in medical wards. 15 , 16 According to government statistics, it is the second most common cause of hospitalization and ninth most common cause of death.…”

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“…Synthetic insecticides were introduced in agricultural practice in the 1950s ( Supplementary Table 1 , available as Supplementary data at IJE online). 14 Over the past two decades, the Bangladesh Government has introduced pesticide legislation, established government bodies to implement the legislation and removed HHPs from agricultural use. The effect of this government action on national suicide rates from pesticide poisoning and from all causes, as well as its effect on agricultural output, has not thus far been investigated.…”

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Bans of WHO Class I Pesticides in Bangladesh—suicide prevention without hampering agricultural output

Chowdhury

Dewan

Verma

et al. 2017

International Journal of Epidemiology

110

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BackgroundPesticide self-poisoning is a major problem in Bangladesh. Over the past 20-years, the Bangladesh government has introduced pesticide legislation and banned highly hazardous pesticides (HHPs) from agricultural use. We aimed to assess the impacts of pesticide bans on suicide and on agricultural production.MethodsWe obtained data on unnatural deaths from the Statistics Division of Bangladesh Police, and used negative binomial regression to quantify changes in pesticide suicides and unnatural deaths following removal of WHO Class I toxicity HHPs from agriculture in 2000. We assessed contemporaneous trends in other risk factors, pesticide usage and agricultural production in Bangladesh from 1996 to 2014.ResultsMortality in hospital from pesticide poisoning fell after the 2000 ban: 15.1% vs 9.5%, relative reduction 37.1% [95% confidence interval (CI) 35.4 to 38.8%]. The pesticide poisoning suicide rate fell from 6.3/100 000 in 1996 to 2.2/100 000 in 2014, a 65.1% (52.0 to 76.7%) decline. There was a modest simultaneous increase in hanging suicides [20.0% (8.4 to 36.9%) increase] but the overall incidence of unnatural deaths fell from 14.0/100 000 to 10.5/100 000 [25.0% (18.1 to 33.0%) decline]. There were 35 071 (95% CI 25 959 to 45 666) fewer pesticide suicides in 2001 to 2014 compared with the number predicted based on trends between 1996 to 2000. This reduction in rate of pesticide suicides occurred despite increased pesticide use and no change in admissions for pesticide poisoning, with no apparent influence on agricultural output.ConclusionsStrengthening pesticide regulation and banning WHO Class I toxicity HHPs in Bangladesh were associated with major reductions in deaths and hospital mortality, without any apparent effect on agricultural output. Our data indicate that removing HHPs from agriculture can rapidly reduce suicides without imposing substantial agricultural costs.

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Bans of WHO Class I Pesticides in Bangladesh—suicide prevention without hampering agricultural output

Chowdhury

Dewan

Verma

et al. 2017

International Journal of Epidemiology

110

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“…Pesticide use in Bangladesh increased in the early 1970sdue to government's support for chemical control measures to prevent crop losses and increase production [1][2][3][4][5]. Inappropriate use of pesticides has caused harmful effects on farmers' health [6][7][8][9], while farmers' good health has a positive effect on production efficiency [10,11].…”

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Adoption and Impacts of Integrated Pest Management in Bangladesh: Evidence from Smallholder Bitter Gourd Growers

Rahman

Norton

2019

Horticulturae

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Determinants of integrated pest management (IPM) adoption, productivity and efficiency of bitter gourd (Momordica charantia L.) growers in Bangladesh were jointly measured using propensity score matching (PSM), sample selection stochastic frontier production function (SFPF) and inverse probability weighted regression adjustment (IPWRA) techniques. The significant value (P < 0.05) of the selectivity variable (ρ(w,v)) coefficient justifies the use of the sample selection SFPF. The decision to adopt IPM was positively influenced by the training and other farmers’ decisions to adopt. Mean technical efficiency (MTE) was found to be significantly higher for adopters (0.59) compared to non-adopters (0.40). The MTE analysis suggests that arranging more training sessions and making farmers more familiar with the IPM practices would improve the technical efficiency of the growers. Adoption of IPM practices significantly reduced the number pesticide applications, which imply environmental benefits from their adoption.

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Level of pesticides contamination in the major river systems: A review on South Asian countries perspective

Sarker

Akbor

Nahar

et al. 2021

Heliyon

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Pesticides in Bangladesh

Cited by 6 publications

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Bans of WHO Class I Pesticides in Bangladesh—suicide prevention without hampering agricultural output

Bans of WHO Class I Pesticides in Bangladesh—suicide prevention without hampering agricultural output

Adoption and Impacts of Integrated Pest Management in Bangladesh: Evidence from Smallholder Bitter Gourd Growers

Level of pesticides contamination in the major river systems: A review on South Asian countries perspective

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