Simranjit Singh/Shahjahanpur: If you also like to eat cucumber salad in the summer season, then this news will fill your taste with bitterness. Because you eat cucumber with so much gusto. It has even more disadvantages than that. Because harmful pesticides are used in their preparation which are very harmful for your health.
Dr. Nutan Verma, expert of Plant Protection Department of Agricultural Science Center, Niyamatpur, says that harmful pesticides are used in preparing cucumber. Within a few hours of the pesticide being used, the cucumbers are plucked and taken to the market. People buy it from here and take it to their homes. Harmful pesticides have a direct impact on their health. If you are buying cucumber from the market and eating it, then take some precautions before eating it. Due to which the harm of pesticides can be reduced to some extent.
Cucumber becomes extremely poisonous
Dr. Nutan Verma told that cucumber and cucumber crops are affected by fruit borer insects. This way . Farmers should make a solution of Imidacloprid 17.8 in 2ml per 1 liter of water and spray it. Keep in mind that this spraying should be done when the cucumber has flowered 5% to 10%. If this spraying is done at this time then the cucumber crop will not be harmed. Do not use any pesticide during the bud stage of cucumber crop. Use of pesticides can be very harmful for human health.
Do not harvest for 5 days
Dr. Nutan Verma told that if the cucumber crop is infested by pests during the bud stage, then farmers use Thiomethoxam. Whose effect lasts on the crop for 5 to 7 days. Using Imidacloprid affects the crop for 5 days. In such a situation, keep in mind that if these medicines have been sprayed in the cucumber crop, then do not harvest the cucumbers too soon.
use neem products
Dr. Nutan Verma told that if the cucumber gets bitten by fruit borer at the leaf stage, then the product prepared from Nimboli can be used. Dr. Nutan Verma told that NSKE (neem seed kernel extract) 3% or 5% can be used. Apart from this, you can spray neem oil by making a solution of 3ml per 1 liter of water.
Do this before eating cucumber
Dr. Nutan Verma told that if you are buying cucumber from the market then you should clean it thoroughly before eating it. To clean cucumbers, add salt to water and leave the cucumbers immersed for 10 minutes. Or mix two caps of vinegar in 1 liter of water and dip the cucumber in it and keep it for some time. After that, cucumber can be eaten after washing it with clean water two to three times. By doing this the harm of pesticides can be reduced.
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FIRST PUBLISHED: May 6, 2024, 16:58 IST