Home Depot, BJ's Wholesale, Other Retailers Join Hands to Help Honeybee Population
by Vikas Vij
Aggressive use of pesticides to push agricultural output has had an undesirable impact on the ecological balance in several ways. Environmentalists have continued to warn against the rampant use of pesticides and their ill effects. One of the classes of pesticides called neonic is known to boost crop yield, and is also extensively used on plants grown in lawns and gardens.
Neonic pesticides are leading to a widespread decline in the population of honeybees each year. The large-scale bee deaths are a serious cause of concern for agriculture because bees pollinate plants that produce nearly 25 percent of the food America consumes annually.
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Vikas is a staff writer for the Sustainable Development news and editorial section on Justmeans. He is an MBA with 20 years of managerial and entrepreneurial experience and global travel. He is the author of "The Power of Money" (Scholars, 2003), a book that presents a revolutionary monetary economic theory on poverty alleviation in the developing world. Vikas is also the official writer for an international social project for developing nations "Decisions for Life" run in collaboration between the ILO, the University of Amsterdam and the Indian Institute of Management.
