Agriculture in India is the largest sector of economic activity and has a crucial role to play in the country`s economic development in various ways. The green revolution that was started in 1967, has contributed significant improvement in agricultural production and food problem of over exploited population in India is solved up to certain extent. To get maximum yield, use of fertilizers in proper time and doses was found to be necessary. Further, the pest easily affects the new varieties and so there must be proper use of pesticides. From world prospective, the continuous application of chemical pesticides has serious long term effect on human health environmental pollution. The continuous uses of chemical pesticides result in resistant pathogen strains. - Prof. Dr. Sangita Jadhav