Pesticides (from Lat. pestis - zymosis and lats. caedo - kill) are chemicals used to fight harmful organisms. Pesticides combine the following groups of substances: herbicides, destroying weeds, insecticides, destroying pests, fungicides, destroying pathogenic fungi, zootsidy, destroying noxious warm-blooded animals, etc. The majority of pesticides - are poisons, poisonous-target organisms, but They also sterilizers (substances that cause sterility) and inhibitors of growth.

Pesticides are used mainly in agriculture, although they are used to protect the food supply, wood and other natural products. In many countries, with the help of chemical pesticides is pest of forests, as well as vectors of diseases of humans and domestic animals (such as the malaria mosquito).

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