Crop protection methods help save harvest

Fifty percent of the harvest is lost unless undertaken to crop protection methods said CropLife Sri Lanka Chairman Dhammika Rupasinghe at a Media Awareness Program organized by the Health Education Bureau together with CropLife and Toxicology Society.

He said general reference to pesticide as poison is not fair because it has more use than the harm it does.

"With reference to an international research done in 1998, without the help of crop protection 15 percent of the harvest is lost from insects, 14 percent from weeds, 13 percent from fungal diseases and there is about 10 percent of post harvest losses as well," he said.