Environmental Issues

Project Proposal

Pesticides Misuse in Pakistan

Presented To:

Fizza Bukhari

Group Members:

Iqra Nadeem

Zainab Muzaffar

Aroosa Sajid

Mahnoor Asghar

Nazish Khan
Topic statement and Research

In our research paper we will investigate use of pesticide and its implications. We will try to cover some
of these aspects such as we'll be covering different aspects by starting with what are pesticides, how are
they used today and how it is harming our environment in different ways. We'll be stating the usage rate
of pesticides being used in Pakistan. The overall history of pesticides and how and why the usage has
increased. Through the literature we will identify the impacts We'll be explaining details how what
effects the usage of pesticides is having on food, soil, water and health of farmer etc. The goals that we
want to achieve is the use of pesticide and its implication on environment. are by covering both good
and bad effects of using pesticides and collecting qualitative data by interviewing the farmers and ways
of how we can overcome this problem that exists in our country. We're conducting this research so that
people have better understanding of the current situation how it is adding to the environmental issues
and how it can be solved.

Literature Review

In this section we'll be reading 5 articles that are written on this issue to collect as much primary and
secondary data we can to evaluate and explain our findings. The articles that we've decided to look
upon are

 History of pesticides and its use (when and how it actually started in Pakistan)
 Use of pPesticides and tTheir rRole in eEnvironmental pPollution
 Environmental and health Pesticide abuse in Pakistan and Environment associated Human
Health Mental rRisks associated with pesticides
 Water contamination due to pesticides
 Costs of pesticides, debt on farmers, provider of pesticide
 Adverse Health Effects of Pesticide Exposure in Agricultural and Industrial Workers of
Developing Country

 Health Hazards, Environmental Effects and Externalizes of Pesticide Use in Pakistan Formatted: Normal, No bullets or numbering

 One more is yet to be decided.

Methods statement

We'll be doing both the qualitative research by interviewing people working in the field as well as Commented [MC1]: While you say interviewing people whom
you’ll interview particularly? Farmers, policy makers, scintists in the
literature research where we'll take out the findings from papers and use it as the data where we'll lab?
analyze and discuss the aspects.  Secondly when we say we,ll interview the question is what we
want to ask and how we want to ask?
You are supposed to write your questionnaire along.