Consumers at risk as dangerous chemicals are used for food production

The incoming Vice Chancellor of the University of Ghana, Prof. Ebenezer Oduro Owusu has cautioned that the excessive use of chemicals for agric activities in the control of insects would have dire consequences on food consumption in the country.

While acknowledging the advantages of chemicals in crop production, he argued that the disproportionate use of the chemicals could have severe health risk to the human body of consumers.

Prof. Oduro Owusu, who is an Entomologist made these observation in his inaugural lecture on the Topic “Entomophobia: Are Insects Dictating the Pace of World Food Insecurity?”

Results of research carried out by a team of researchers and various collaborators over the years point to the fact that, humans are in a state of panic, given true meaning to the word “Entomophobia”, and unquestionably losing the fight against the tiny insects, around the globe.

Thus, insects are truly dictating the pace of world food insecurity, leaving humans with very little options to counteract their ruthless upsurge on agricultural crops.