Muhammad Anwar-ul- Haq
The interaction and linkage of Fauna and Flora has been started from the origin of life on the planet of biosphere. The antagonistic and synergistic role of both organism is very protuberant from the age of human beings. The housefly (fauna) and weeds (flora) directly or indirectly are influenced on the life of human. The complete eradication of both the organism is impossible but to adopt and use the new techniques to manage in minimizing and reducing the housefly and weeds, they are foe of human and crops respectively. The housefly and weeds are two of the most pervasive and sinister bothers that pestilence human societies and land ecosystems across the globe. These apparently inoffensive organisms may appear harmless at first look, but they pose significant intimidations to human health, cultivated crops and the environment. Weeds, with their capacity to create troublesome for the crops and ultimately reduce the yields. while, houseflies with their capability played a terrible role to transmit various diseases in man like dysentery, cholera and typhoid and pose a major hazard for public health. It is the time as a nation, we develop operative policies for the eradication of houseflies and weeds to save the environment. Human health and happiness directly or indirectly depend on the neat and clean environment of the homes and fields. In fact, according to the World Health Organization, houseflies are responsible for spreading more than 60 diseases worldwide. Moreover, houseflies can also cause significant economic losses, particularly in the agricultural and food industries. Weeds, on the other hand, can have devastating impacts on agriculture and ecosystems. The markets of big and small cities as well as our villages due to unhygienic conditions there, actually the breeding sites of houseflies. In these situations, the responsibility is fixed to each and every person, they link with the markets to protect the environment by adopting the preventive measures like using nets or pharmaceutical spray to control or reduce the breeding potential sites of houseflies. Moreover, public and private sector organizations also help to the community for sustainable hygienic environment throughout the country. In other hand, the weeds are devastating role in the sector of agriculture. Approximately 30-40% reduction in crop yields is identified due to weed-crop competition according to the assessment of World Food and Agriculture Organization in each year throughout the world. No doubt, the agriculturist has been tried to control the weeds since many decades, but still not to achieve complete success to control the weeds in the crops. I think success will achieve at that time when the gap among the grower, agriculturists and the stakeholders of the pharmaceutical industries will be curtailed. Moreover, the chances of wildfires, biodiversity loss are increased due to vast dispersal of weeds in the arable fields that leads to ultimately negative impact on human health and other living organisms. In these situations, what can we do to reduce the production of houseflies and weeds? by adopting an integrated management systems to control the houseflies and weeds in some extent. Secondly, the campaigns in the cities, seminars in the institutions and to run the commercials on national screen in different intervals must be started for awareness about the negative impacts of houseflies and weeds. Thirdly, training sessions through the experts would be arranged to educate the farmers, agricultural workers, and other stakeholders about the cohesive pest management policies. Finally, introduced the latest biological control methods in the population of Pakistan and to aware the community about predators-parasites relationship i.e the best way to control the housefly and weed populations. It is concluded that all the communities from different fields of life of the nation working together to reduce the effects of these pests to create a better and more bearable environment in future for generations to come.
The Author is M. Phil. Scholar in Zoology Department of Zoology Emersion University Multan
