A Review of Intercropping's Function in Sustainable Insect-Pest Management

Abstract

The review's findings showed that: (1) DDTs and HCHs are more prevalent pesticides in rice grain and agricultural soil 
than other OCP isomers; (2) the OCPs forbid DDTs and HCHs; (3) recent and past pesticide applications are the main 
causes of pesticide contamination in agricultural soil; and (4) children are more susceptible to pesticides than adults. In 
order to limit public access to pesticides, regulatory bodies have been advised to step up surveillance of banned pesticides 
and swiftly phase out particularly hazardous chemicals through national policy and implementation. The list of 
approved/permitted pesticides must be routinely reviewed in order to correctly distinguish between restricted, prohibited, 
and general-use pesticides. The use of less pesticide-dependent alternative farming techniques, the creation of new 
pesticides with unique modes of action and enhanced safety profiles, and the improvement of currently used pesticide 
formulations toward safer formulations are all ways to mitigate the negative effects of pesticides. The top three policy 
objectives are to reduce pesticide use (promoting IPM), enhance pesticide controls (quick policy action to phase out OCPs), 
and fund research toward safer alternatives (creating biopesticides).