1What are the advantages of using insecticides?
2What local methods have been used to control pests and insects in your area?
3Are there any negative effects of using insecticides?
4What effects are seen on the health of people and the environment due to the excessive and unscientific use of pesticides?
5What situation have you seen or felt in your family or locality due to the overuse of pesticides?
6Is it right to spray pesticides the way the farmer in the crop-spraying picture is doing?
7What is a pesticide? Give two examples of things it protects.
8How does the Pesticide Management Act 2076 define a pesticide?
9When and why was DDT brought into Nepal?
10The average use of pesticides in Nepal is 396 grams per hectare. If about 80% of it mixes into the soil, how much pesticide reaches the soil of one hectare?
11How does pesticide that mixes into the soil harm the soil and water?
12What is the relationship between an insecticide and a pesticide?