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A Fuzzy Decision-Making System for the Impact of Pesticides Applied in Agricultural Fields on Human Health

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  • Karthik S.

    (Mathematics Division, School of Advanced Sciences, VIT Chennai, India)

  • Saroj Kumar Dash

    (Mathematics Division, School of Advanced Sciences, VIT Chennai, India)

  • Punithavelan N.

    (Physics Division, School of Advanced Sciences, VIT Chennai, India)

Abstract

Farmers are widely applying chemical pesticides to the agricultural lands to kill weeds to reduce crop losses and to prevent diseases created by insects. By applying pesticides to the lands, typically have greater agricultural yield. As pesticides have toxic ingredients, they can create so many health problems to humans and will degrade the environment gradually. Since each pesticide is linked to some health hazards when the composition of the pesticides exceeds its limits, uncertainty arises in determining the human health hazards. Hence, fuzzy logic-based decision-making model is designed to diagnose the human health hazards. In the model, the linguistic terms are used to represent the association between pesticides and human health hazards with the aid of chemists and physicians. Fuzzy numbers are used to represent the values for the linguistic terms. Therefore, the intent of the paper is to analyze the human health hazards induced by applying different pesticides in the agricultural lands through the proposed fuzzy decision-making system.

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  • Karthik S. & Saroj Kumar Dash & Punithavelan N., 2020. "A Fuzzy Decision-Making System for the Impact of Pesticides Applied in Agricultural Fields on Human Health," International Journal of Fuzzy System Applications (IJFSA), IGI Global, vol. 9(3), pages 42-62, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:igg:jfsa00:v:9:y:2020:i:3:p:42-62
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