Abstract
According to the Food and Agriculture Organization of United Nation (FAO), there is a demand of increasing 70 % of food production to sustain 2.3 billion people by the year of 2050. This shows the need of rapid growth of agriculture applications to improve the food production worldwide. It’s an undeniable truth that pesticides induced major role in the economic production. Notwithstanding the beneficial effects of pesticides, the negative impacts on human health, environment quality have well documented worldwide and raise the concerns to the health hazard globally. Pesticides need to be closely regulated for quality control monitoring on fruits, vegetables and water resources for safety purposes. European Regulation 396/2005 and amendments were established on the amount of maximum quantities of pesticide residues permitted in products of animal or vegetable for human or animal consumption. Phytoremediation technology using aquatic plants acts as cost effective alternative over conventional technologies to remove harmful heavy metals, organic and inorganic pollutants from various water bodies. To best of our knowledge, there is little or no data are available on the effectiveness of aquatic plants for the phytoremediation of pesticides. Therefore, in this review paper, the main focus is to study the effectiveness of aquatic plant factors in removal of pesticides from water sources and to provide insight for the future development.
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