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Advantages

1. Control of pests: They help in reduction of pests feeding upon economically valuable crops.

2. Prevention of diseases:They prevent diseases in plants by killing pests.

3. Increasing yields: They are useful in increasing the productivity of crops.

4.  Cost effective: Pesticides are cost effective, they are cheap and easily available.

5. Effective and rapid: The pesticides are toxic for living pests and the action of these pesticides is rapid and effective to maintain the population of pests.

Disdavantages

1. Loss of beneficial insect species: The action of pesticides not only kill the desired harmful pests but also kills beneficial pollinating insects. Therefore, interrupts in the life cycle of plants.

2. Poisioning hazards: Pesticides are harmful for all living species. The human applicant have been found symptoms of nausea, head ache, irritation, and severe poisoning ailments associated with the use of pesticide in the agricultural field.

3. Responsible pollutants:  Pesticides are potentially harmful pollutants of air, soil and water.

4. Effects food chain: The pesticides being undigested in the pests body is being eaten up by another higher organism results in biomagnification. In which large population of organisms in the higher trophic levels are affected.