Indigeneous technology vs pesticide by arpit

1. PREPARED BY
Arpit Kumar Mishra
M.SC(Ag) Entomology prev. year

2. OUTLINE
 INTRODUCTION
 CONSUMPTION PATTERN
 COMPARISION
 SUCCESSFULL EXAMPLES OF INDIGENOUS
TECHNOLOGY
 MERITS AND DEMERITS
 PESTICIDES
 CONCLUSION

3. INTRODUCTION
INDIGENOUS TECHNOLOGY:
Indigenous is associated with people originating or
developing naturally in a particular land, region, or
environment. So the technology evolved
by indigenous people are indigenous technology.

4. PESTICIDES :
Pesticides are substances that are meant to
control pests or weeds. In general, a pesticide is a
chemical or biological agent (such as a virus,
bacterium, antimicrobial, or disinfectant) that
deters, incapacitates, kills, or otherwise
discourages pests.

5. Consumption pattern of pesticides

7. COMPARISION
INDIGENOUS
TECHNOLOGY PESTICIDES
 ANCIENT BASED
TECHNOLOGY
 ECO-FRIENDLY
 BALANCE BETWEEN
ENVIRONMENT
&LIVELIHOOD
 DIVERSIFICATION OF
FARMING
 BASED ON LEIA
(LOW EXTERNAL INPUT
AGRICULTURE)
 MODERN BASED
TECHNOLOGY
 NON ECO-FRIENDLY
 GREAT DAMAGE TO THE
ENVIRONMENT
&LIVELIHOOD
 LACK OF DIVERSITY IN THE
FARMING SYSTEM
 BASED ON HIEA
( HIGH EXTERNAL INPUT
AGRICULTURE )

8. SUCCESFUL EXAMPLE OF INDIGENOUS TECHNOLOGIES
 Cultivating the plant (Semecarpus anacardium)
around fields/orchards helps in warding off termites.
 It has also been suggested to treat growing plants by
coating with sesame (Sesamum indicum) oil cake so
that insects could be kept away from attacking them.
 A mixture of milk water + kunapajala + smoking with
ghee (due to which acrolein is produced) has been
used as a sprinkling agent for plant protection.

9. MERITS OF INDIGENOUS TECHNOLOGY
Low cost approaches.
Save ecologial system and bio diversity.
It is based on human experiences on mass scale,
dynamic and changing.
Highest possible adaptability to local culture and
environment and put greater weightage on minimizing
risks rather than maximizing profit.
Indigenous apporaches were based on the local
availability of material and human resources to ensure
minimal livelihoods for local people.

10. DEMERITS:
 Lack of participatory approach.
 Take more time to control of pest.
 Lack of Indegenous Technology knowledge.
 Low output profit.
 Lack of labours.
 The unavailibility of organic resources.

11. MERITS OF PESTICIDES:
 Cost Effectiveness : Pesticides are inexpensive to buy and
producing good results without costing a lot of money.
 Greater yields : It helps in increasing the yield and
productivity of crop plants in the field by controlling pests
population.
 Effective and rapid : Pesticides works better and faster
than other alternatives.
 Increase food supplies : Pesticides helps to reduce food
losses and ensures adequate food supply and increases food
production.
 Flexibility : The method of using pesticides is easy and
flexible to use.

12. DEMERITS
 Reduction of beneficial species : The chemicals used in pesticides
are slightly harmful and kills beneficial species of interest and reduces
their population.
 Kill natural pest enemies : Sometimes pesticides may also
eleminates natural enemies of pests such as predators and parasites,
leads to increase in population of pests.
 Resistance : Promotes genetic resistance.
 Poisoning hazards : The pesticides used are hazardous and poisonous
which may have toxic effect on infants, childrens and adults if they
comes in contact with the body.
 Drift of sprays and Vapour : It can drift outside of the area of where
was sprayed.
 Pollutes the environment : The chemicals used in pesticides may
released in air, water and soil easily and pollutes the environment.

13. FUTURE PROSPECT OF USING
INDIGENOUS TECHNOLOGY
 It is the basis for local-level decision in agriculture, health care, food
production, education, natural resource management and a host of
their activities in rural communities.
 It provides useful clue for planning projects for conservation of
sustainable uses of natural resources, indigenous health practices etc.
 Awareness is growing about the use of indigenous knowledge in
development initiatives that could bring long-term benefits, richly
complementing and enhancing the contributions of modern
inventions.
 Therefore there is a need to enmesh these practices for promoting
sustainable development & Indigenous technology of agriculture.

14. Conclusion
 Formal pest and disease management knowledge and
ecological knowledge derived through hypothetico-
deductive method whereas indigenous pest
management knowledge and traditional ecological
knowledge.
 Although indigenous pest and disease management
knowledge fitted well in the age-old land use system,
yet need thorough validation in view of changing
agricultural.

15. THANK YOU