The bitter truth of Fresh and green vegetables

             

The bitter truth of Fresh and green vegetables

 We always think of having green and fresh vegetable in our daily meal. This is recommendations of health experts too.  It would be better to have some land vegetables for our daily need, ideally it should be kitchen garden. But unfortunately, even those who are engaged in farming i.e. farmers they too don’t want to cultivate the vegetables for their family requirements and most of them are dependent on the market for the same. Most of the farmers and rural people use to purchase the vegetable from the market even they have enough land to cultivate. The vegetable grower are those generally those farmers who have less than an acre of land i.e. marginal farmers. Cultivating vegetables crops is highly profitable option for any farmers but for marginal farmers cultivating vegetables is one of the best options to get handsome profit from their very small piece of land. The marginal farmers of nearby cities are preferably cultivating vegetable crops as they have daily ready market near to them. Almost all the vegetable crops are short duration crops and when they starts production, ready to move produce is getting ready and almost every day and farmers have to harvest mature part of the crop to take it to the market for selling on daily basis. Most of the vegetable crops now a days are high yielding hybrids and responsive to the high fertilizer dosage, due to all these characters these vegetable crops attract large number of pest and diseases. In most of vegetable crops insect pest and disease infestation is very frequent and highly damaging too. 

To control or manage the large number of insect pests and diseases, vegetables farmers are using different chemical pesticides but most of the chemical pesticides are very toxic, they persists in the plant’s body for very long time as such, as a toxin. Generally no vegetable crop can grow and reach maturity without attack of the insect pest or diseases. The diseases of vegetables are also in high number but major threat are insect pests.

Any insect pest or disease occurrence to the crop leads to damage of quality of its produce. In vegetables the quality matters a lot. The consumer does not like distorted shape, texture and appearance of the vegetable. High price of vegetables can only be obtained when they are full in luster and very attractive. To maintain the same farmers are using various chemicals called pesticides which are toxins. Farmers can’t see any pest on the vegetable in any period of time on the crop. So to avoid this they go for the application of chemical pesticides frequently.

For each pesticide there is a fixed recommendation, but farmers generally use some high doses so that they can be sure to that no pest should remain alive after the use of the pesticide. Every pesticide has residual effect and residual effectiveness for a particular time. Residual effect of some pesticides is of 10 days and some have 15 days or even for more days. Till this period the pesticide will remain present in the plant’s system as toxin. 

Almost every day the new and ready to move vegetable gets ready on the same plant/crop. This is being harvested or plugged from plant to send the market. If a farmer sprays his crop from any pesticide whose residual effect is of seven days and crop is going to ready within three to four days then for next three days the toxic chemical (pesticide/toxin) will remain present in all part of the plant system. When this vegetable will go to the market then along with vegetable the toxins are also transported to the consumer.

More than 75% of vegetable comes to the market are sprayed or treated with toxic pesticides just one or two day before. Most of the chemical pesticide has residual effect/ residual effectiveness for 10 to 15 days and even for several days. So along with vegetables we are eating chemical toxins daily.

Concluding the above, whatever fresh and green vegetables we are looking in the market and taking home with satisfaction in mind to have fresh and healthy vegetable in our diet, actually we are eating not so healthy as we expect. These vegetables are enough toxic to invite and incubate serious disease in our body in long run. They are more dangerous to children because children body are not enough capable to tolerate these toxins in their body.