Answer:
The benefits of using pesticides are that they try to minimize the amount of infestations by pests and thus protecting the crops from potential yield losses and reduction of product quality.
- Limit the amount of infestations
- Protecing the crops
- High profits to farmers
- Affordable to consumers
The drawbacks of using pesticides are that there is evidence of both direct and indirect dangers involved in the use of these chemical substances both for humans and the environment.
- Dangerous to humans, animals, and the enviorment
- Contaminates the land, air, food, and water
- Short-term and long-term damage to whatever it effects
- In some cases, effect the crop its suppose to help