Obsolete Pesticides, an Environmental Threat: The Case of Office of Tea in Burundi, the Tora Site
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Abstract
Besides fertilizers, which improve crop yield by promoting the growth of the plant of interest via a supply of nutrients, pesticides also improve this yield by fighting against undesirable organisms. However, if they are not well managed, they can cause harmful effects on the environment, human and animal health, as well as ecological imbalance. This work primarily focuses primarily on the negative impact of obsolete pesticides on the environment and human health. The case study was carried out for the case of the Office of Tea of Burundi (OTB), the Tora site. To collect the field survey data, data collection techniques such as documentary research, survey, and interview were used. Our survey population was made up of 265 households, made up of the households of OTB workers and other individuals in the vicinity of the OTB Tora spread over a distance of 1.5 km. Using Alain Bouchard's formula, the snowball sampling technique was used to reach 70 households that participated in our survey. The questionnaire was administered indirectly and/or directly, depending on whether the respondent was literate or illiterate. The results showed that the obsolete pesticide management system at OTB Tora suffers from a lack of technical expertise of this insti-tution for their collection and destruction; the population does not know the importance of treating empty pesticide containers before use; and People around the OTB Tora do not know the negative impact of inhaling obsolete pesticides on their health.
Keywords
Obsolete pesticides; Environmental threat; Treating empty pesticides; Negative impact of obsolete pesticides
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How to cite this paper
Obsolete Pesticides, an Environmental Threat: The Case of Office of Tea in Burundi, the Tora Site
How to cite this paper: Jeanine Ndihokubwayo, Niyongabo Jean Bosco, Victor Barantota, Mutuyeyezu Francine, Nijimbere Evangeline, Akonkwa Majaliwa Eliel, Yaniyo Bisimwa Yannick. (2025) Obsolete Pesticides, an Environmental Threat: The Case of Office of Tea in Burundi, the Tora Site. Scientific Access, 1(2), 53-61.
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.26855/sa.2025.09.001
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