Phytotoxicity of organophosphates with particular reference to triazophos in the agriculture of India- A review

Abstract

Agrochemicals are the basic and essential ingredients for guaranteed agricultural returns in the present 
cropping systems. Due to conducive tropical environment to the pest populations in India, pesticides 
become even more important. Among the dominant pesticides, organophosphates form a major group. 
They have been of immense use due to comparatively more threat from insect pests than weeds and 
fungi. Triazophos belongs to organophosphate group of pesticides and is widely used in the fields of 
soybean, rice, vegetables and cotton to control aphids, jassids, boll worms, leafminer, stem borer, leaf 
folder, girdle beetle etc. From the last decade there has been indiscriminate use of pesticides in the 
fields which resulted in residual toxicity to the succeeding non-resistant crops. The present review is 
an attempt to flag the known phytotoxic potential of triazophos to different crops in India.