The growth in the use of pesticide use over the past 50 years has
been an integral part of the technological revolution in agriculture
that has helped deliver major increases in productivity across much of
the globe. The mechanisation revolution of the 1930s and 1940s has
been augmented since 1945 by a chemical revolution in terms of pesticides,
but this has comewith an environmental cost. Problems associated with
pesticide use in developing countries are mostly associated with
misuse and can be attributed to a number of causes (Atreya et al., 2011),