Organic farming seems to be more appropriate as it considered the important aspects like sustainable. Agriculture is the most important sector for ensuring food security, alleviating poverty and conserving the vital natural resources that the world’s present and future generation will be entirely dependent upon for their survival and well being, in the name of development, the environmental resources have been beyond comprehension. Acid rain, deforestation, depletion, smog due to automobiles and discharge of industrial pollution, soil degradation, depletion of ozone layer and discharge of toxic wastage by industrial units into rivers and oceans are some environmental problematic issues. Intensive use of inorganic fertilizers and pesticides has been an important tool in the drive for increased crop production. In fact more fertilizers consumption is a good indication of agricultural productivity but depletion of soil fertility is commonly observed in soils. Due to heavy use of chemical herbicides, pesticides and intensification of agricultural production during the past few decades has led to other harmful effects like nitrate in the ground water, contamination of fooding materials, eutrophication, stratospheric changes etc. High agricultural inputs are unlikely to be sustainable for very long unless the inputs are correctly judged in terms of both their quality and quantity.

This study was carried out withe the objective of knowing the pesticides use pattern in commerical vegetable cultivation in the pocket area in vegetable production of eastern Chitwan, Nepal during winter, January 2001.

The study clearly reveals that farmers have very little knowledge or have no knowledge about safe use of chemical pesticides. Meanwhile, they are not aware of waiting period, environmental and health hazards and all those accidents led by misuse of chemical pesticides. Pesticides use in commercial farming and freshly marketable commodities appears excessively uncontrolled and without consideration of health of consumers.