Pesticide Pollution and Child Growth

The modern technology brought in pesticides and herbicides which were used senselessly to obtain more produce resulting in very detrimental health outcomes. Environmental contamination is wide spread and exposure occurs both at workplace and in residential areas. Accordingly, this paper is focused on to understand the effect of pesticide pollution on the growth and development of growing children of the Jat Sikh boys of age group 6–18 years living in the cotton belt of Bathinda in terms of height, weight and Intelligence Quotient (IQ). It was found that children living in the polluted area were shorter in height and lighter in body weight than control group and they also performed lower in the I.Q. score.